The inclusion of concrete, universal EDI measures in the new Football Governance Code is a necessary step to address the significant concerns about a lack of EDI oversight in football. The work on EDI done by the leagues to date has not been undertaken collaboratively and opportunities to pool resources to avoid duplicating work have been missed. We welcome the acceptance from the football authorities Football Governance 19 that they should be doing more to improve EDI outcomes across footbal...

The inclusion of concrete, universal EDI measures in the new Football Governance Code is a necessary step to address the significant concerns about a lack of EDI oversight in football. The work on EDI done by the leagues to date has not been undertaken collaboratively and opportunities to pool resources to avoid duplicating work have been missed. We welcome the acceptance from the football authorities Football Governance 19 that they should be doing more to improve EDI outcomes across football. However, while we welcome the standards that organisations have introduced since 2014, the limited progress on EDI outcomes over the past decade means Type: conclusion | Number: 6 | Paragraph: 31 | Response status: accepted Government response: As set out in the White Paper, the Government’s strong preference is for a football-led solution and ideally there would be no need for regulatory intervention in financial distributions at all. However, we agree with the CMS Committee that although par