‘Children may not be covered for sports injuries’

Parents unaware they may have to pay medical bills, expert warns

Thousands of children who play sport may not be covered for the cost of injuries, parents have been warned.

Professor Jack Anderson, of Queen’s University Belfast, who specialises in sports law, said the vast majority of parents do not realise they may have to pay the medical bills. He cited a recent survey by the HSE that one in three attending one of its minor injury units in 2016 — some 33,000 cases — presented with an injury suffered playing sport.