{"id":1931826,"date":"2023-05-16T11:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gymnastics-british-gymnastics-chief-calls-for-independent-welfare-body\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T11:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:48:05","slug":"gymnastics-british-gymnastics-chief-calls-for-independent-welfare-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gymnastics-british-gymnastics-chief-calls-for-independent-welfare-body\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gymnastics CEO urges creation of independent welfare organization."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgymnastics-british-gymnastics-chief-calls-for-independent-welfare-body%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931826&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>British Gymnastics Calls for Independent Body to Ensure Athlete Welfare<\/h2>\n<p>The head of British Gymnastics, Mike Darcey, has called on the government to establish an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-biden-should-back-referring-accused-israeli-officials-to-international-criminal-court\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar: Biden Should Back Referring Accused Israeli Officials To International Criminal Court\">independent body<\/a> to ensure the welfare of athletes across all sports. Darcey stated that many sporting bodies lack the resources, expertise, and perceptions of bias to adequately safeguard competitors. He believes that establishing a new independent body is the solution to this issue.<\/p>\n<h3>Safeguarding Measures Introduced<\/h3>\n<p>Sport England and UK Sport have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gymnastics-british-gymnastics-chief-calls-for-independent-welfare-body\/\" title=\"British Gymnastics CEO urges creation of independent welfare organization.\">introduced safeguarding measures<\/a> in the wake of the Whyte Review, an independent investigation published in June 2022 that found numerous cases of mistreatment in gymnastics. The safeguarding crisis in gymnastics has created a backlog of hundreds of historical complaints, and the issues raised by this backlog, along with the parallels seen in other sports, have led to the call for a centralised independent body to prioritise the welfare and safeguarding of athletes across all sports.<\/p>\n<h3>British Federations Facing Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>The British federations for athletics, swimming, cycling, and bobsleigh are among the sports that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gal-gadot-says-joss-whedon-threatened-her-career-but-she-handled-it\/\" title=\"Gal Gadot Says Joss Whedon \u2018Threatened\u2019 Her Career, But She \u2018Handled It\u2019\">faced allegations<\/a> of maltreatment of athletes in recent years. British Gymnastics lacks the resources and expertise to handle these cases, and complainants and the subjects of complaints remain in limbo for too long. Additionally, because the national federation acts as investigator, judge, and jury, it risks giving the impression of bias.<\/p>\n<h3>Centralised Body in the United States<\/h3>\n<p>The United States has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/factbox-governments-efforts-to-regulate-ai-tools\/\" title=\"Factbox-Governments\u2019 efforts to regulate AI tools\">centralised body<\/a>, the U.S. Center for SafeSport, to handle abuse complaints. The call for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/longtime-abortion-activist-lena-dunham-is-ready-to-adopt-children\/\" title=\"Longtime Abortion Activist Lena Dunham Is Ready to Adopt Children\">similar body<\/a> in the UK aims to ensure that the pursuit of success is accompanied by high standards of athlete welfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of excellence does not come at the cost of athlete welfare. The head of British Gymnastics is calling for an independent body to be established by the government to ensure the safety of athletes, as many sports lack the resources to do so themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1931827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[8519,3850,14307,26897,7026,4594,4399,10263],"class_list":["post-1931826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-british","tag-ceo","tag-creation","tag-gymnastics","tag-independent","tag-organization","tag-urges","tag-welfare"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}