Education workshops and webinars

Qualified officials can also undertake training via conferences and webinars on particular topics within or outside their main discipline.

• Go to Communities of Good Practice (COP) webinars

Call Room module

When this is in place, this is the location athletes arrive for ahead of being escorted to their track or field event. Here roles within this area include, checking athletes are arriving here on time for volunteers/officials to do further checks. Assisting athletes prepare for their race by making sure they are wearing the correct number, letting them know what lane and heat they are in, escorting athletes to start line for track or to the field event site.

A free on-line Call-Room Module is available for anyone who is interested in or has been allocated a role in the Call-Room or can be used for Continuous Personal Development (CPD). The Call-Room enables an athletics meeting to be run efficiently, on time and according to the rules with well-trained officials. This module will take you through the different roles within the call-room and explain all the checks you would make on both track and field athletes.

• Go to Call Room module on Athletics Hub (login needed)

Communities of Good Practice for grassroots officiating

These sessions are designed covering a wide range of topics across all officiating disciplines about grassroots officiating. All the sessions allow for continuous and professional development (CPD) for Officials across all disciplines and levels and all recordings can be found below. The 2025 series of sessions and topics are as follows:

COP archive

Select the topic to watch the webinar on YouTube or go to our YouTube playlist. A presentation can be downloaded where available.

General

• Coffee and Cake catch up with guest speaker Rob Dalziel talking about his journey as an official and developing/progressing through grassroots officiating to officiating at international events across the world.
• How to fill in my record of experience
• I have been asked to do a Level 2 feedback sheet.
• Mentorship in the development of officials: presentation (PDF 630kB)
• The who’s who of running a successful Track and Field event: webinar
• Introduction to competition admin roles: download presentation (PDF 400kB)
• How to use myAthletics Portal and Athletics Hub
• Inclusive behaviours, language and best practice: webinar
  • Download Inclusive behaviours presentation (PDF 2.3MB)

Endurance and Race Walking officials

• Referee at endurance events: webinar
• How to progress along the Officials’ Endurance Pathway: webinar
• Roles within Race Walking Team: webinar
  • Download the Race Walking Team Roles presentation (PDF 2MB)

Field and Track officials

• How to prepare for the role of Track Referee (county/league level): webinar
• What is the long throws process I need to follow? 

Starter, Timekeeping and Photofinish officials

• Timekeeping best practice: webinar
• Working within a start team: webinar
• Roles within a photofinish team: webinar
• Role of photo-finish technician

National Athletics Referee (World Athletics) eLearning course

This is a free online resource created by World Athletics which is an eLearning multi-disciplinary course for any official to complete. It does not all have to be done at the same time and can be completed on a gradual basis.

This resource is highly recommended as a course for officials, especially Level 4 officials, to broaden your knowledge across the various track/field disciplines and assist with your development as an official.

• Log into the World Athletics education hub
• Once logged in, click on Courses > Technical Officials > National Athletics Referee course.