Tennis becomes the latest sport to admit to child protection failings
Whilst it is the historic sexual abuse in football that has dominated newspaper headlines, figures released from Operation Hydrant in October showed that 27 referrals had been made about abuse in sports other than football.
On the 24th November, the LTA posted a public apology for its safeguarding
The arrest and subsequent conviction of the coach happened in 2017 and the abuse is recent, unlike many of the referrals in the football abuse scandal. In their article covering the extent of the abuse and the
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