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<p>The safety, wellbeing, and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is paramount.
National Governing Bodies are responsible for the regulation of their sports and for
ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to protect participants from harm,
including concussion.</p><p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has
worked with sporting bodies and others to develop a single set of shared concussion
guidelines for grassroots sport across the UK, which were published on 28 April 2023.
We continue to encourage sports governing bodies to adapt the guidelines to their
own sport where appropriate.</p><p>Further research on the links between health, dementia
and contact sport is needed to better understand the issue. DCMS has established a
new Sports Concussion Research Forum to identify key research questions that need
answering in this important area.</p><p>The government remains committed to working
with sports to build on the positive work that is already taking place to mitigate
the causes and effects of concussion in sport.</p>
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