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Declaration
Sectarian abuse and violence can manifest itself in a very visible and prominent way within Scottish football. The popularity of the game in Scotland - and its resultant high profile - serves to highlight any misbehaviour and abusive chanting by football fans. This is harmful to Scottish football and can present a very negative image of Scottish society, both domestically and across the world. This situation must be addressed if we are to secure a bright future for Scotland where bigotry, intolerance and hatred do not exist and where sectarianism is consigned to history.
To achieve this goal we, with our partners across football and wider Scottish society have set out the following actions:
Action 1:
To establish a new body to focus effort, develop and deliver activities to tackle sectarianism associated with Scottish football.
Action 2:
To undertake a nationwide anti-sectarianism awareness raising campaign at the beginning of 2007.
Action 3:
To ensure that any new sportscotland investment in the Scottish FA is linked to the achievement of Foundation and Preliminary levels of the Equity Standard in 2009.
Action 4:
To strengthen the National Club Licensing Scheme to require clubs to demonstrate policies and actions being undertaken against sectarianism and other forms of discrimination.
Action 5:
To introduce a new disciplinary offence of unacceptable conduct in football grounds in Scotland which will carry potential sanctions against clubs, officials, players or spectators engaging in sectarian behaviour.
Action 6:
To encourage football clubs to develop standardised and consistent approaches to stewarding matches across Scotland.
Action 7:
To ensure that Football Banning Orders are used by police forces across Scotland in a consistent way so that those who persistently indulge in sectarian abuse can be excluded from football.
Action 8:
To put in place processes to effectively monitor, evaluate, review and report on the effectiveness of the actions which are contained in this strategy.
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Patricia Ferguson
Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport | David Taylor
Chief Executive
Scottish FA | Julia Bracewell
Chair of sportscotland |
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