Deprivation

-The role of sport in regenerating deprived areas

This document is from the Centre for Leisure Research at Edinburgh University produced for the Scottish Executive Central Research Unit. Typical of the Centres’ work, this document demonstrates strong academic content of value to academics, professionals and students.Chapters include:

Sports and their dimensions
Sport and Health
Sport and Crime
Sport and Education
Sport and Employment
Community volunteering
Sport and minority ethnic groups
The environmental value of sport

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Social Inclusion

-Research report: Sport and social exclusion(1999)

This research report was compiled by the centre for leisure research at Loughborough University to provide a definitive critical analysis of social exclusion in terms of sport and leisure for the Policy Action Team. The report defines social exclusion - associates it with poverty of opportunity and details the 1999 research theory of the benefits of sport and physical activity.

Sport and Social Exclusion

-Sport, active recreation and social inclusion (2003)

This report focuses on improving education, regenerating communities through sport.The social role of sport, opportunities and challenges.Sport: Fit for Health,Sport & PFI/PPP, The role of private sector health clubs,
Modernisation of Sport England.

Sport,Active recreation & social inclusion

-Taking It On - The Annual Review of Positive Futures 2008

The goal for Positive Futures, as laid out in the 2006 strategy, was to establish the programme as the benchmark sports and activity based social inclusion programme for young people in England and Wales.

Positive Futures-Taking It On

Community

-Sport and community development : A manual - (2002)

This manual was commissioned to assist those setting up and running sports-based projects in the community, particularly in areas of deprivation such as the Social Inclusion Partnership areas in Scotland. It advises on:

• setting aims and objectives;
• lessons learned from good practice; and
• monitoring and evaluating projects to determine their impact on sporting and community outcomes.

Sport and community development: A Manual

-Sport and the Community: The report of the Wolfenden Committee on Sport

In October 1957, the Central Council of Physical Recreation decided to appoint a small independent Committee to examine the general position of sport in this country and to recommend what action should be taken by statutory and voluntary bodies if games, sports and outdoor activities were to play their full part in promoting the general welfare of the community.

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Health

-Choosing activity: A physical activity action plan - (2005)

A Physical activity action plan

-The Wanless Report - Health Trends - (2003)

Prior to Spending Review 2002, Derek Wanless was asked to examine future health trends and to identify the factors determining the long-term financial and resource needs for the NHS to 2022.

The Wanless Report

-Physical activity_the best buy in public health - (2002)

Physical inactivity carries the same risks for heart disease as smoking tobacco and obesity. Sport and recreation has a key role to play in delivering the Government’s public health agenda, and will help to reduce the long term costs of health care whilst improving people’s quality of life.

Physical Activity_The best buy in public health

-Tackling Obesity in England - (2001)

The document authors examine the way in which the NHS manages the problem of obesity. They found that many health authorities reflected the problem in their local health planning, and some had dedicated strategies to address it. The National Service Framework for coronary heart disease, published in March 2000, signals the Department of Health's intention to ensure that, in future, all NHS bodies, working closely with local authorities, will develop and implement effective policies for reducing overweight and obesity.

Tackling Obesity in England

Ethnic Minorities

-Increasing BME participation in Sport and Physical activity by Black and Ethnic Minority Communities - (2005)

This frank statement from Sport England throws down a challenge to the whole sporting community to develop participation and involvement in management and coaching amongst black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.

Increasing BME particicpation

-Sports Participation and Ethnicity in England. National Survey (1999/2000)

The aim of this study was to provide robust statistical data on the levels and patterns of sporting participation among ethnic minority groups in England. To this end questions were asked with regard to the following:

--Participation rates and level of involvement in sport
--Location of sports involvement
--Attitudes towards sports
--Sporting achievements

Other forms of sports related involvement such as media viewing, attendance at sporting events, administration and general levels of interest,Role models,Experience of sport in school,Experience of discrimination in relation to sport.

Ethnic Survey

Young People

-Sport and early learning experiences - (2004)

This is an academic review paper commissioned by Sport England as contextual analysis to inform the preparation of the Framework for sport in England and part of a series of desk studies called Driving up Participation: The Challenge for Sport.

Sport and early learning experience

-Children and Physical Activity: A systematic review of barriers and facilitators - (2003)

This systematic review describes the number, types and quality attributes of existing research studies on the barriers to, and facilitators of, physical activity amongst children aged 4 to 10. It synthesises the findings of a sub-set of these studies to assess what helps and what stops children taking part in physical activity over and above what they do in school physical education (PE) lessons.

A review of barriers and fcailitators

-Promoting physical activity for children: NICE (2008)

NICE was asked by the Department of Health (DH) to develop guidance on physical activity, play and sport for pre-school and school-age children in family, pre-school, school and community settings. Read more

-Sport - A Positive Activity (2008)

This guide for people in children's services is designed to provide information to help nurture partnerships between local authorities and those in sport and create an inclusive approach to hopefully inspire more young people to enjoy the benefits of sport.

Sport- A Positive Activity

-The Children’s Plan:Building brighter futures –Summary (DCSF 2006)

The Children’s Plan aims to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up.

Children's Plan-Exec Summary

Strategy

This table contains of list of research papers on Strategy

Understanding participation in sport – a symmetric review (Sport England 2005)	Game plan: A strategy for delivering government’s sport and physical activity objectives
Future sports or future challenges to sport? - (2004)	Sport and local delivery - (2004)
A Sporting Future for All - (2000)	An improvement strategy for Culture and Sport (2008).
DCMS: Playing to win: A new era for sport (2008)	Quality of Sporting Experience (Sport England 2008)
Lapsed Participants (Sport England 2008)	Understanding participation in club based sport (Sport England 2008)
Driving up participation in sport: The social context - (2004)

Women in Sport

-Understanding participation in sport: What determines participation among 15 to 19 year old women? 2006

The research described in this report was undertaken by the Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA), and was commissioned by Sport England. TSA was contracted to undertake qualitative research amongst 15-19 year-old young women, to identify the factors that both encourage and discourage participation in sport and physical activity.

15 to 19 women_full report

-UK Strategy Framework for Women and Sport

In 2001 UK Sport formed the UK Co-ordinating Group on Women and Sport. Members include representatives from the Women's Sports Foundation, Home Country Sports Councils, elite athletes and the Women's National Commission. The Co-ordinating Group is chaired by Dr Anita White and was tasked with developing a UK Strategy Framework for Women and Sport.

Uk Strategy framework for women and Sport

-The state of Play 2006

The third in a series of annual reports produced by UK Sport to monitor the progress that women have made in the following areas of sport: women and girls’ participation in sport; performance and excellence and leadership.The information was compiled by the Women’s Sports Foundation.

The state of Play

 -Research into women and swimming

To gain a deeper understanding of the many issues surrounding women's participation in swimming,WSF and the Amateur Swimming Association commissioned HNI International to conduct research into women's attitudes to swimming and the barriers that they face. The key questions addressed were: why other women do not swim and what interventionist ideas might make them swim.The research,focused on women between the ages of 25 and 34 years. Swimming has a particular reference to this age group as women's involvement with the activity can take the form of either swimming for their own volition or as mother with young children. The opinion expressed in focus groups around the country were comprised of a mix of women who both do and do not swim.

Women and swimming 2005-2006

- A brief guide to the Gender Equality and implications for sport:The line of duty.

Hot on the heels of the Race and Disability Duties,the Gender Equality Duty(GED) has finally arrived.The much aniticipated legislation finally became law on April 6th 2007.

The line of duty

Women Sport Foundation Factsheets

Benefits of Sport	Careers in Sport
Coaching	Gender Equality
Healthy Benefits	Leadership
Media	Olympics
Muslim women in Sport	Participation
Sporting Achievements 1900-2006

Volunteering

-The Helping Out Survey

2,705 people in England were interviewed for 'Helping Out: A national survey of volunteering and charitable giving'. More than half (58 per cent) had both volunteered and donated to charity in the last 12 months, and most (81 per cent) had given to a charity within the last four weeks.

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-Volunteering and social policy

The Commission on the Future of Volunteering present this report, its second to date, on volunteering and public policy, written by the Institute for Volunteering Research and Volunteering England.

Volunteering and social policy september 2007

-Helping Out: A national survey of volunteering and charitable giving, September 2007

This report details the main findings of a national survey of volunteering and charitable giving – termed Helping Out – carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) in partnership with the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) in 2006/07. The study was carried out for the Office of the Third Sector in the Cabinet Office.

National Survey of Volunteering and charitable giving

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