How does the Premier League check club safeguarding?
The league sends an appointed representative to assess compliance. Clubs must give access to records and people, with written feedback and reports after visits.

The league sends an appointed representative to assess compliance. Clubs must give access to records and people, with written feedback and reports after visits.

A Premier League club must employ five kinds of official, give each role written terms of reference, and bind officials on rules, media permission and EDI.

Associated party and threshold deals must go to the board as required, and associated party deals must stay at fair market value; failing either is a breach.

A club must appoint a senior safeguarding lead and at least one full-time head of safeguarding. For specific activities, safeguarding officers may also be used.

A club must immediately preserve relevant material in its existing format and notify connected current and former people to do the same.

It reviews three kinds of board decision: whether a proposed director or a serving director is liable to be disqualified, and a proposed change of control.

A Premier League disciplinary case starts with a written complaint from the board, emailed to the respondent and the chair of the judicial panel.

Written notice goes to the person and the club with reasons, and a serving director then has 28 days to resign or stop counting as a director.
