The findings of Clive Sheldon QC regarding the FA and eight coaches including Barry Bennell and Bob Higgins

In his report, Clive Sheldon finds that there were “significant failures for which there were no excuse” in the FA’s response to child protection issues between October 1995 and May 2000. Before that, Sheldon argues that although the FA “did nothing proactive” to address safeguarding and protect children from sexual abuse he did not consider the behaviour “blameworthy”. At the time, Sheldon argues, child abuse was wrongly seen as something that did not occur in sport.

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