U.S. Tennis Association welcomes review into player safeguarding
New York TimesA six-month review of the United States Tennis Association’s player safety protocols has described the organization’s safeguarding measures and means of ensuring player safety as surpassing the standards of the country’s leading sports safety organization, but still needing significant improvement. The review, funded by the USTA and conducted by two leading lawyers at Debevoise & Plimpton — David O’Neil and Mary Beth Hogan — includes a series of recommendations to improve current protocols. GO DEEPER Jury orders USTA to pay $9M in assault case Some of its recommendations, in a review that amounted to 66 pages of documentation, include: Requiring parents to undergo SafeSport training before providing consent to any one-on-one contact between an unrelated adult teacher or coach and a minor athlete. “Our review focused on the effectiveness and transparency of both the ways in which the USTA currently works to keep athletes safe and prevent abuse — such as trainings, background screenings and member communications — and its policies for responding when it receives a report of misconduct,” O’Neil and Hogan wrote.
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