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Football Notes: FA Pulled Funding From Child Welfare Study

The FA pulled funding on its groundbreaking study into child welfare "before it had time to assess properly how effective its new child-protection policies were," according to one of the authors of the report. The FA is "being probed by its own independent inquiry" as to why a pioneering study, designed to safeguard against the child abuse perpetuated by pedophile and coach Barry Bennell was "scrapped" in '03 after two years of funding (London DAILY MAIL, 2/17).

The upcoming Indian Women's League will have no participants from the Indian Super League or I-League, "leaving the league in its second edition without the support of India's highest profile men's clubs." The '17 league had six teams, including Pune City from the ISL, but this year all the franchises and clubs from the ISL and I-League "declined to participate" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 2/16).

The world's first national association dedicated to Para football will be created by the Scottish FA, which will "also invest more than" £100,000 ($140,135) to help grow and run the game. The new affiliated national association "will unite a broad range of groups" -- amputee, cerebral palsy, deaf, frame, learning disability, mental health, powerchair, dwarfism, blind and visual impairment football (BBC, 2/18).

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