By Sami Mokbel for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:31 BST, 29 April 2019 | Updated: 22:53 BST, 29 April 2019
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Premier League clubs have imposed strict guidelines on young players entering first-team dressing rooms to avoid damaging safeguarding violations.
Sportsmail can reveal a host of top-flight clubs, including Bournemouth, Fulham and Watford, have introduced a protocol that would see players, primarily under the age of 18, get changed in a separate area to the first-team dressing room.
Fulham wonderkid Harvey Elliott, who is 16, is among the players to have been prevented from changing into his match-day kit in the senior dressing room as part of the guidelines.
A host of Premier League clubs have introduced protocols to avoid safeguarding issues
Elliott has been an unused substitute for Fulham’s previous three matches. He made his senior debut in September’s Carabao Cup game at Millwall - but even though the
