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Working with sport

The Commission has established good working relationships with many sporting bodies. We will continue to build new relationships with organisations seeking to take steps to preserve the integrity of their sport. This includes those with whom we may have had limited or no previous engagement or where we consider the risks to be greatest.

We will encourage and facilitate sport governing bodies to share information with us and with operators about suspicious sporting activity possibly related to betting integrity in order to offer support and help decide on the most appropriate course of action.

We will work with and offer expertise to sports and betting operators, as befits our capability and resource constraints to share good practice and expertise. We will work to understand what education programmes, rules or codes are in place regarding participants betting and the sanctions that can be applied if these are breached.

Where appropriate, we will share with sport governing bodies information about our investigative techniques and procedures to help sports bodies build up their capacity to uphold their own rules and conduct investigations on issues relating to their sport.

We will where appropriate disclose information gathered by the Commission investigations to assist Sports Governing Bodies in applying their disciplinary codes. We will do this in line with the requirements the relevant Data Protection Legislation.

We will explore with SGBs, sports organisations and relevant others (for example, the Sports Betting Group, the Professional Players Federation, UK Sport etc) opportunities for the facilitation of the sharing of best practice.

SBIU will also work with event organisers to provide bespoke support for international tournaments hosted in Great Britain.

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Last updated: 28 November 2022

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Following an audit the 'provide bespoke support for international tournaments hosted in Great Britain' link has been updated.

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