<p>The safety, wellbeing, and welfare of everyone taking part in sport is paramount. National Governing Bodies are responsible for the regulation of their sports and for ensuring that appropriate measures are in place to protect participants from harm, including concussion.</p><p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has worked with sporting bodies and others to develop a single set of shared concussion guidelines for grassroots sport across the UK, which were published on 28 April 2023. We continue to encourage sports governing bodies to adapt the guidelines to their own sport where appropriate.</p><p>Further research on the links between health, dementia and contact sport is needed to better understand the issue. DCMS has established a new Sports Concussion Research Forum to identify key research questions that need answering in this important area.</p><p>The government remains committed to working with sports to build on the positive work that is already taking place to mitigate the causes and effects of concussion in sport.</p>