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Guidance for Carriage of Passengers to Sporting Events updated  

7 Jun 2023

For many years the coach industry has complied with a voluntary code of practice whereby operators taking passengers to a designated sporting event meet certain guidelines set by the police. This has worked very well, and it has seldom been necessary for a traffic commissioner to take any further action against an operator who has contravened the guidelines. Nevertheless the police in England and Wales are concerned that incidents of football related violence and disorder do still occur, and have asked the commissioners to revise the guidelines.

For guidance:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/carriage-of-passengers-to-designated-sporting-events?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=9253597e-a4f2-47a7-af3d-fa81407ea8b0&utm_content=immediately