You are wrong on two aspects. 1. Musket not Ian, but this time it is Ian. 2. His job description includes promoting and working for Sheffield United Academy, same as all professionals on their payroll.

Players have to have standard DBS check in order to provide this (and I quote from their standard contract) "ambassadorial role model function.". In order to carry out the role with Sheffield Children's Hospital, those involved have enhanced DBS, and the service level agreement with the hospital trust includes that stipulation. This is now in the public domain but as an ex regulator of the trust I am aware of and have assessed the football contracts that exist with many clubs in the region covered by that specialist trust.

Football clubs do so much more than kick leather these days. Community outreach is a role model aspect. Endorsement of products is a role model aspect.

You can be very naive at times. He cannot carry out the academy role even if they gave him a contract to merely train and play. He is, as per teachers, health and social care workers etc already barred from the academy aspect of his former job until such time as he comes off the sex offender register.

Not my view, you had a view I am comfortable with by Musket above. This is just laying down the facts. I possibly know more than most, for my sins, about safeguarding, having been involved in such things professionally up till earlier this year and if this had happened say three years ago, I would have been the one asking the hospital trust for assurances regarding disclosure of role model visitors to the hospital. I can say with confidence that since Saville, that is tighter now anyway.