Junior padel,
safe by design.
DBS-verified coaches. Minor-safe accounts that are physically absent from every public surface. Clubs that take safeguarding seriously. Find the right setup for your young player.
How we protect under-18s
Four locked guarantees.
DBS check is a hard gate
A coach can only list as "works with juniors" once their DBS is verified + in-date. Enforced at the database level — not just a checkbox.
Junior accounts return 404
Under-18 player rows are physically absent from every public surface, API, ranking, and commercial feed. Country-aware adult-age threshold; strictest if blank.
No adult↔minor messaging
Coordination between adults and juniors only happens through a guardian or club channel. No free-form DMs — DB triggers reject them.
Special-category data sealed
Identity, condition, and preference tags live in a protected store. Never sold, never aggregated, never exposed by API regardless of consent.
DBS-verified
Junior padel coaches.
No DBS-verified junior coaches yet.
We're onboarding the first wave now. Coaches: list your profile and submit your DBS document — verification typically clears in 3–5 working days, then your “works with juniors” badge goes live.
List as a coach →Youth-friendly venues
Clubs that run junior programmes.
Filter by the specific programme — academy, holiday camps, pathway-to-pro, school partnerships.
For parents + guardians
What you should know.
- ·Junior account setup: we collect DOB at signup so the right adult-age threshold applies. Under-18 accounts default to junior settings — no public profile, no commercial feed eligibility, no marketing comms.
- ·Guardian-mediated coordination: any communication between a junior and an adult on the platform routes through a guardian or club channel. No DMs, no free-form messaging.
- ·Identifying a junior-safe coach: look for the green “DBS verified” chip on the coach's profile. It expires when the DBS document does — coaches re-submit to keep the badge.
- ·Concerns or reports: email safety@trustpadel.com — read by humans, never shown to the reported account. Retaliation is a permanent ban.
Coach? Run a junior programme?
List your profile with the “works with juniors” flag. We'll verify your DBS and your badge goes live across the directory + this page.