Football sexual abuse report: FA 'did not do enough to keep children safe'

• FA accused of institutional failure after Bennell conviction
• Clubs singled out for failures over historical abuse

Generations of young people suffered horrific sexual abuse at many of England's professional and amateur football clubs due to a wholesale absence of child protection policies, ignorance and naivety, an inquiry for the Football Association has concluded.

Led by Clive Sheldon QC, the inquiry found the FA culpable of institutional failure" at its delay in introducing safeguarding after 1995, when Barry Bennell and some high-profile abusers in other sports had already been prosecuted and convicted. Bennell had first been convicted in 1994 in the US.