Engaged with 27 Premier League and Category One clubs, the National Injury Surveillance Project is the biggest and most wide-ranging project of its kind within sport. Safety Advisory Group (SAG): The vital forum within which the Local Authority and other agencies may develop a coordinated approach to safety at the competition venue, while each exercising its own responsibilities. It is therefore important that risk assessments are completed early in the competition planning process. competition delivery partners should consult the Supplementary Guidance to the Green Guide (SG02 - Planning for Social Distancing at Sports Grounds) for detailed information on how to perform this calculation.

Although it will remain some time before venues are full to capacity, this is a major step in the right direction for the resumption of live spectator sport across the country. The guidance will outline the conditions, facilities and processes that will need to be implemented for the safe return of spectators to competitive sporting events, including tight restrictions on numbers in the short-term.

The elite sport return to training guidance intends to minimise the risk to the elite sports community, while also minimising any pressure elite sport places on healthcare workers and the wider community during the resumption of training. Elite Performance Through a systematic, evidence-led approach the Elite Performance function aims to add value to player development throughout the age phases (9-23) and across a multi-disciplinary platform, including physical, technical, tactical and psychological development. ● Seating and space for spectators with disabilities should comply with SD arrangements and have due regard to accessibility responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010. We are absolutely clear that individual sports must review whether they have the appropriate carefully controlled medical conditions in place before they can proceed, and secure the confidence of athletes, coaches and support staff. Where the SD guidelines cannot be followed in full in relation to a particular activity, Competition delivery partners should consider whether that activity needs to continue for the competition to operate, and, if so, take all the mitigating actions possible to reduce the risk of transmission. The Government has announced that a small number of sporting events will be used to pilot the safe return of spectators through late July and early August – with a view to reopen competition venues for sports fans, with social distancing measures in place, from October 2020. They are expected to include two men’s county cricket friendly matches – such as Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval on 26-27 July – the World Snooker Championship at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre from 31 July, and the Glorious Goodwood horse racing festival on 1 August. Further updates to the stage five guidance may be published to reflect the result of the test events before competition with spectators is permitted. Sporting events will allow fans to return from 1 October with social distancing in place, if it is safe to do so. Group ticket purchases should follow social distancing guidelines for seeing family and friends in regards to number of people in a group, and number of households in a group, appropriate to indoor and outdoor settings.

mitigating measures implemented by the venue operator.

Spectators (both ‘home’ and ‘away’, if both sets of spectators are to be admitted) must agree, at point of ticket purchase, to a spectator code of behaviour obliging them to: declare that they will not attend the competition if they display any COVID-19 symptoms and/or are required to self-isolate, adhere to requirements stipulated by the competition delivery partners regarding SD and the movements and behaviours of spectators, and, provide names and contact details for each ticketed individual within their booking to assist with NHS test and trace requirements. Athletes and staff should also be clear on their option to ‘opt out’ at any time.