🔴 Exclusive: Parents have raised concerns about the treatment of their children at Manchester City's Girls' Academy over the past three years, the theipaper can reveal
Parents have also raised questions over the FA’s handling of issues at the academy, after the governing body told families that critical complaints have to be made in two separate seasons before a licence will be revoked or lowered, resulting in reduced funding. Manchester City’s Girls’ Academy is currently Tier One – the highest of the three ratings. Yet when two parents lodged separate yet similar complaints in two year groups, the FA considered them in the same timeframe.
“The FA are praising themselves for how far women’s football has come after England won Euro 2022 — they’re so far away from the reality of what happens to girls in academies.”, show FA officials suggesting Manchester City could be in breach of its licence “based on the absence of various policies and procedures as well as player reviews”, adding “this would directly conflict with the information and evidence provided… during the clubs [sic] annual EV ”.
In emails a month later [July 2021], parents who have submitted complaints about Manchester City are described as “the group of angry parents”. “The impact and damage it had, seeing such a well-rounded, outgoing, confident individual completely shattered into pieces. And not only from a football perspective. They damaged her education, it affected her whole life.
After then escalating her grievances to the FA, which investigated her claims, the woman was told that the governing body would monitor the Manchester City Girls’ Academy to ensure it improved. Manchester City insists that any investigations were not academy-wide and concerned individual complaints only. The FA did not deny investigations had been carried out but the governing body insisted it is not currently investigating or monitoring Manchester City’s Girls’ Academy.
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