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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 5 July 2025
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Sandesh Gulhane, we are not able to see you on the screens in the room. Could you check your camera, please?

Jillian Gibson, you have mentioned data and the lack of robust data around some of these issues. What is COSLA doing to try to encourage local authorities to collect data on participation in sport?

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Clare Haughey

There is a lot of interest in the subject. If we could have brief supplementaries and brief responses, that would be helpful.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Under our next agenda item, we will take evidence on children’s and young people’s participation in sport and physical activity. I welcome Jillian Gibson, policy manager for sport and physical activity at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities; Gregor Muir, policy and communications officer at the Scottish Sports Association; and Ailsa Wyllie, lead manager for sports development at sportscotland.

We will move straight to questions.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Decision on Taking Business in Private

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Good morning, and welcome to the 20th meeting in 2025 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received apologies from Emma Harper and David Torrance.

Under our first agenda item, does the committee agree to take items 3 to 5 in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Clare Haughey

I will bring Brian Whittle in for a very brief question and a very brief answer, because we have already run quite a bit over time.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Children’s and Young People’s Participation in Sport and Physical Activity

Meeting date: 24 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Well, the witnesses heard what I said about brief answers. I thank you all for your evidence this morning.

This is our final meeting before the summer recess. The committee’s next meeting will take place on Tuesday 2 September 2025, and further details of that meeting will be published towards the end of August. That concludes the public part of our meeting today.

11:22 Meeting continued in private until 12:00.  

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Welfare and Sustainability in Scottish Youth Football

Meeting date: 17 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Sorry, Mr Madlani, but we have run over time.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Welfare and Sustainability in Scottish Youth Football

Meeting date: 17 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Can we switch on my microphone, please? [Interruption.] It does not appear to be working. I briefly suspend the meeting.

11:22 Meeting suspended.  

11:23 On resuming—  

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Welfare and Sustainability in Scottish Youth Football

Meeting date: 17 June 2025

Clare Haughey

The next item is evidence on the topic of welfare and sustainability in Scottish youth football. Our evidence session takes place in the context of the separate complaints that the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the campaign group Realgrassroots made last year to the Competition and Markets Authority concerning the human rights implications of the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Professional Football League rules that govern young players in Scotland.

I welcome Nick Hobbs, head of advice and investigations for the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland; Mahesh Madlani, associate at gunnercooke; Alexander Waksman, partner at gunnercooke; and Scott Robertson, co-founder of Realgrassroots.

Yesterday, gunnercooke LLP provided the committee with a checklist that sets out the SFA and SPFL rules that are at issue in the complaints that the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and Realgrassroots made to the Competition and Markets Authority. The list has been published on the committee’s web pages.

I understand that Scott Robertson would like to make a brief opening statement.

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]

Welfare and Sustainability in Scottish Youth Football

Meeting date: 17 June 2025

Clare Haughey

Down in England, do they have that no-poach rule?