Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 15
Third Report - Concussion in sport
Published 22 Jul 2021
Paragraph 62
Addressed to Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Government immediately mandate the Health and Safety Executive to work with National Governing Bodies of all sports to establish, by July 2022, a national framework for the reporting of sporting injuries. Within a year of the framework being published, all organised sports should be required to report any event that might lead to acquired brain injury.
From: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Third Report - Concussion in sport (HC 46), paragraph 62, 22 July 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 10 December 2021 (deadline 3 December 2021).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government states that the Committee's recommendations "largely align with the Government's own ambitions", agreeing with some in full and in part, and setting out its own action plan.
- On a UK-wide concussion protocol, the government "agrees with this recommendation", saying the four home nations have "agreed in principle" to develop shared protocols based on the Scotland model, with completion expected by the end of 2022.
- On a single research fund, it agrees with the intention but does not "believe it is necessary" because medical research funds already exist; it will instead convene a "sports concussion research forum".
- On a national injury reporting framework run by the Health and Safety Executive, it "agrees in part", saying other organisations are "better placed" to collate the information, and that it "will look into the feasibility of a national register of concussion incidents".
- It sets timed actions: the research forum to be convened "by the end of January 2022", Oxford study findings "by the end of March 2022", and shared protocols completed with communication started "by summer 2022".