Dr. Una May:

It is an area that overlaps into the whole concept of whistleblowing, and that is an other area altogether that is addressed through other legislation. Each individual NGB has its own systems and they have reporting systems in place. Many of them have their own quite sophisticated systems for reporting. Others are more basic. Having a centralised system would assume the issues were all going to be consistent and that we could address them in the same way across all sports. The reality is the types of issues are very diverse and the organisations in which we work are very diverse. We are talking about a comparison between the ability of a small, volunteer-led organisation to address an issue and that of a significantly larger organisation. It is that level of consistency across organisations that would make it very difficult to have an overseeing ombudsman, as such.