Sports: Ombudsman

(asked on 17th May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of the establishment of an independent Sports Ombudsman to improve the welfare of elite athletes.


Answered by
Tracey Crouch Portrait
Tracey Crouch
This question was answered on 22nd May 2018

I have been carefully considering the recommendation in Baroness Grey-Thompson’s Duty of Care in Sport review for the establishment of an independent sports ombudsman. As I stated during my appearance before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee in November 2017, I would like to consider the Committee’s report of their inquiry into sports governance before making any decisions about whether or how to take this recommendation forward.

It is important that elite sports’ systems for dealing with concerns about athlete welfare are as effective as possible, regardless of whether any new service - be that an ombudsman or a different model - is developed. UK Sport have been proactive on this issue and are working to strengthen the existing systems, structures and responsibilities for dispute resolution within the high performance system.

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