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Athletes to unite behind launch of Race Report Card on anniversary of George Floyd murder
SSN exclusive: Sport Monitoring Advisory Panel to launch Race Report Card on anniversary of murder of George Floyd; Race Report Card will score progress made by clubs and NGBs on policy, workforce, and diversity of national teams
Last Updated: 26/05/21 7:38pm
National Governing Bodies and professional clubs will be measured on the progress towards inclusion of Black communities through a Race Report Card, launching on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
Based on a scheme created in the United States, the Race Report Card is expected to play an integral role in holding organisations to account on commitments made around diversity by various sports after Floyd's death on May 25 last year.
The Race Report Card is being driven by the Sport Monitoring Advisory Panel (SMAP), comprised of influential current and former Black athletes including four-time Paralympic medallist Kadeena Cox, former England Test cricketer Devon Malcolm, Women's Rugby World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi, QPR technical director Chris Ramsey and netballer Ama Agbeze.
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The panel also features former Olympian Fiona May, ex-Paralympian Alexandra Rickham, Waltham Forest Gators head coach Harley Hicks, sports editor at The Voice Rodney Hinds, and leading sports academic Professor Kevin Hylton from Leeds Beckett University.
Sports Monitoring Advisory Panel key objectives:
- To act as a monitoring group to check and challenge publicly funded sport and physical activity organisations regarding statements made, interventions delivered and their impact
- Identify and profile best practice of publicly funded sport and physical activity organisations.
- Advise and guide Sporting Equals on commensurate matters related to the above.
The Race Report Card will score the progress made by sports bodies on policy and strategy, and workforce profile. It will also focus on ethnically diverse representation within men's and women's sides at national team level,
Sports bodies will be asked to complete the Race Report Card electronically, and the findings will be analysed and processed ahead of the publication of a league table later this year, allowing for sports to be compared on performance.
The panel wanted to give organisations including Sports NGBs a year after they offered commitments and made statements about tackling racial inequality within sport.
Sporting Equals launched the Sports Monitoring Advisory Panel to hold to account publicly funded sporting organisations over their Black Lives Matter-inspired pledges.
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