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@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA The Whyte Review is commissioned and funded by (i) @Sport_England, a non-departmental public body under @DCMS and (ii) @uk_sport, an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by @DCMS. The 'review' has acquired the adjective 'independent' despite being commissioned by /1

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA the very organisations under whose umbrellas the alleged and discovered abuses were committed. The last sports review on which we recently tweeted is here and note who RT'd it. This was also commissioned by @DCMS which hoofed it into the long-grass /2

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@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA Whyte's date band (para #5 ToR) is v. limited, as though there’s nothing to learn outside the dates despite the non-existent legislative underpinning for reporting abuse remaining unchanged for >70 yrs. It's still a discretionary expectation that reports *should* be made which /3

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA simply makes reliable and consistent safeguarding unattainable. Para #7 provides a 'discretionary' possibility for the reviewer to consider matters outside the time period. Fundamentally, the ToR's indicate the review is into whether safeguarding *expectations* i.e. ink on /4

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA paper plus unaccredited Sg training absent of statutory legislation, have been delivered by these settings in which children are placed in the personal care of adults other than their parents. It’ll generate many words but few changes on which functioning safeguarding can be /5

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA belatedly built. Para 4 (b) (ii) is an over ask even for a QC because the ToR’s exclude any mention of an examination into the extent to which the statutory framework has facilitated or inhibited staff to make known/suspected child abuse referrals to the authorities. To assume /6

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA by default that the statutory framework is capable of functioning in these complex & strategically important settings, opaquely defined as #RegulatedActivities in the SVGA 2006, is quite wrong. legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/47/…. Design of the current safeguarding framework is grounded /7

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA on social work practice dominated by familial child neglect. It is then misapplied to complex #RegulatedActivities which face entirely different challenges. What can work in families becomes a #bagofbits in #RA's. See emails to/fm Prof Ben Mathews staff.qut.edu.au/staff/b.mathews /8

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA Here's an extract from our second submission to IICSA in advance of #MR seminars. Some others recognise the dysfunction that exists in EW. The framework in Sco is a clone. The organisations that commissioned this *review* have remained silent about the #bagofbits but have they /9

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA recognised it? Not doing so is unimaginable and if they have, what representations have they made to DCMS for a functioning framework that enables their umbrella orgs to deliver safeguarding on which reliance can be placed? You can see our submission to Reporting and Acting /10

@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA .....on Child Abuse and Neglect consultation here. We authored Amendment 43 tabled by Baroness Walmsley (LD) in the Serious Crimes Bill that secured it. You'll see our proposal specifies multiple sports because "RA" is so poorly defined by SVGA. /11
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@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA Should you decide to read our submission you will recognise the extract below. The last three signatories are academics that have significant involvement in athlete welfare and safeguarding. /End