Despite receiving a recommendation to uphold the ban on co-ed contact sports (the panel voted 16-3 in favor of the ban with one person abstaining), Archbishop Chaput made up his own mind and ruled to allow for co-ed play.

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Batsman Ed Joyce is also in the panel, four years after playing for England against the Irish in the West Indies.

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Michael de la Haye, States Greffier, has invited Belinda Smith from the NSPCC and Ed Marsden from UK consultants Verita onto the panel.

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