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British sports teams and bodies ‘failing to safeguard’ women from online abuse

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  • Study finds organisations ‘shirking their duty of care’

  • Issue raised again this week by England’s Jess Carter

Most of Britain’s leading sports teams and governing bodies still have no specific safeguarding policies to protect women from online abuse, research has found.

The study, which analysed the public policies of 52 organisations and clubs across football, cricket and rugby union, warns they are “shirking their duty of care, shifting the responsibility on to athletes to safeguard themselves” as a result.

Continue reading…Study finds organisations ‘shirking their duty of care’Issue raised again this week by England’s Jess CarterMost of Britain’s leading sports teams and governing bodies still have no specific safeguarding policies to protect women from online abuse, research has found.The study, which analysed the public policies of 52 organisations and clubs across football, cricket and rugby union, warns they are “shirking their duty of care, shifting the responsibility on to athletes to safeguard themselves” as a result. Continue reading…