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Rugby and rights of the child

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18 December 2020 To: Juliet HarrisDirector, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) Dear Juliet The purposes of this email are to introduce myself and to ask for your advice and perhaps collaboration. I am Professor of Public Health at Newcastle…

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Rugby and rights of the child

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18 December 2020 To: Children & Young People’s Commissioner Scotland Dear Children’s Commissioner The purposes of this email are to introduce myself and to ask for your advice and collaboration. I am Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University, and…

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Kids’ lives are on the line but rugby won’t listen. 2020

Pollock AM. Kids’ lives are on the line but rugby won’t listen. The Sunday Times 13 Dec 2020.

Children A&E visits and sports injuries. 2018

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Children account for almost half of all visits to A&E for sports injuries. The Conversation. 02 Nov 2018.

Sports-related injuries in children in Oxfordshire. 2018

Kirkwood G, Hughes TC., Pollock AM. Results on sports-related injuries in children from NHS emergency care dataset Oxfordshire pilot: an ecological study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2018. download

Pre-activity movement control exercise: some concerns

White AJ, Batten J, Kirkwood G, Anderson E, Pollock AM. ‘Pre-activity movement control exercise programme to prevent injuries in youth rugby’: some concerns. Br J Sports Med 2018.

Tackle and scrum should be banned in school rugby. 2017

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Tackle and scrum should be banned in school rugby. BMJ 26 Sep 2017.

Evidence supporting a ban on the tackle in school rugby: a response to World Rugby. 2017

Pollock AM, White AJ, Kirkwood G. Evidence in support of the call to ban the tackle and harmful contact in school rugby: a response to World Rugby. Br J Sports Med 2017;51:1108–13. download

Head injuries and concussion in rugby. 2016

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Head injuries and concussion in rugby. Briefing to the Rugby Union All Party Parliamentary Group. 28 Nov 2016. download

Sport Duty of Care Review. 2016

Pollock AM, Kirkwood G. Sport Duty of Care Review: submission. London; 2016 May. download

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