In fairness they might not have read it, given that your link tells me the item is either deleted, expired or I don't have permission to view it. [On the plus side, it did show me a nice graphic of a bicycle, though on the second attempt it could only manage what seems to be a turd wearing a pointy hat - go figure.]
Sports admin seems to follow the same principle as academic admin, in that the only quality required from a policy is existence. It need not be sensible, workable, consistent, or have any impact on what people actually do in practice. So long as it exists the person in charge has done their job and someone else can be blamed if things go wrong.
Not that I'm bitter and cynical about such matters...
It was all well publicised at the time it was published (No I didn't see anything about it either, and I was looking). You can find links to the report, which had a good number of sensible people working on it, and the separate Board's recommendations below.
Claire seems to have summarised its implementation quite well.
https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/index.php?p...
The report fed back from athletes and parents concerns about the constant pressure, feeling of being ‘under the spotlight’ that having the squad manager - present on all camps - on the selection panel too. An independent selection panel was recommended.
Many of the recommendations required finding money, or volunteers. This doesn’t. Removing the squad manager from the selection panel is a simple, easy way of showing that British orienteering is serious about addressing the welfare concerns raised and showing that it is listening to the orienteering community and yet it has chosen not to act. Sadly having sat on the talent and Performance steering group this does not surprise me.
And paddy you’re right. Most policies I write are for when academics do something stupid just cause they want to and we have to get pay thousands to advisors to fix it for us. If I have a policy I can ship the blame - and the bill - to them. Working at a uni is really odd. In financial service firms actions are taken in order to make money. At universities actions are taken to boost academic’s reputations (egos) and soothe students so they give good feedback. It’s much less predictable what people are going to do.
Have you contacted Lauren Page, the independent director recruited in 2018 who is a solicitor and has a wide ranging background in sport's governance? Nothing like bringing someone who has influence and outside experience to look into this.
I am not surprised this is happening. People defending their own positions. It's all one big clique and it has gone on for so long.. We've done really well at producing junior prodigies who go on to be great non-orienteering athletes. Good luck all.
I firstly read that as "Nothing like bringing someone who has influenza and outside experience..." and thought that lockdown had just become a part of life in the UK.