England World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi has been appointed to the impartial evaluate panel that can report on organisational tradition and behavior inside the Welsh Rugby Union.
Sport Resolutions, directors of the evaluate, had beforehand confirmed former Court of Appeal decide Dame Anne Rafferty as panel chair, and she or he will likely be joined by Alphonsi and Quentin Smith.
A commissioning advisory group has additionally been established to help the evaluate, which contains WRU consultant Henry Engelhardt and Sport Wales’ Emma Wilkins, the WRU stated.
Alphonsi received 74 England caps, and was a member of England’s 2014 World Cup-winning staff. She has remained concerned within the recreation via intensive media work.
Smith was chair of Sale Sharks for 10 years, is a former Premiership Rugby chair and a director of England Rugby 2015 Limited, which delivered the World Cup in England that yr.
He at the moment chairs the Football Association’s exceptions panel and the skilled soccer negotiating and consultative committee, comprising the Premier League, English Football League, the Professional Footballers’ Association and the FA.
The impartial evaluate started a month in the past, overlaying a interval from 2017 to the current.
It is investigating allegations of sexism, misogyny, homophobia and racism, and also will look at the organisational tradition and behaviours of management in any respect ranges on the WRU.
WRU chair Ieuan Evans and performing chief govt Nigel Walker appeared earlier than the Senedd’s Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport and International Relations Committee in early February.
They have been referred to as to offer proof after severe allegations have been aired in a programme by BBC Wales Investigates.
Steve Phillips stepped down as WRU chief govt in January, and it was introduced that an exterior taskforce had been requested to hold out an impartial evaluate.
