NEWS

On June 3, 2021, Kole Gjeloshaj (Chair of the Consultative Committee dell’EPAS – Council of Europe and Deputy Secretary General of ISF) chaired the webinar “Checking criminal records as a tool to protect children in sport”, which examined how to prevent sexual abuse in sport by implementing safe recruitment processes of people who work with children. As a member of the Consultative Committee Bureau, the President of EAS moderated the high-level panel encompassing Elda Moreno (Head of Children’s Rights and Sport Values Department of the Council of Europe), Melanie LANG (Senior Lecturer in child protection in sport, Centre for Child Protection and Safeguarding in Sport at the Edge Hill University, United Kingdom), Vivien RIMMER (Head of Safeguarding, Rugby Football Union, United Kingdom), Håvard B. ØVREGÅRD (Adviser, Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, Norway), Richard FEWKES (National Coordinator Non-Recent Child Sexual Abuse, NPCC – Operation Hydrant, UK), Anton Toni Klancnik and Cathal Delaney (EUROPOL – European Cyber Crime Centre) and Dieter Braekeveld & Uri Sadeh (INTERPOL).

Further information on the webinar and its conclusions are available at https://rm.coe.int/43-conclusions-cc-webinar-criminal-checks-14062021/1680a2dcb7

On June 15, and 16 June 2021, the annual joint meeting of the EPAS Governing Board and the Consultative Committee was held online to discuss the EPAS programme of activities. The new elected members of the EPAS Governing Board are Alexandre Husting (Chair, Luxembourg), Andrea Carletti (Vice-Chair, Italy) Alexey Morozov (Region 1, Russian Federation), François Tricarico (Region 2, Belgium), Viktoria Slavkova (Region 3, Bulgaria), Kolë Gjeloshaj (Representative of the Consultative Committee, ISF) and Tone Jagodic (Representative of the Consultative Committee, EOC). During the meeting, the revised European Sports Charter was approved to be transmitted to the Committee of Ministers for possible adoption during the next fall.

Further information on the meeting is available at https://www.coe.int/en/web/sport/-/2021-annual-meeting-of-the-epas-governing-board-and-consultative-committee