Look for evidence if you want to promote physical activity. And realise who your target groups actually are and where they are most likely to be physically active. Those were among the recommendations in a debate on the ‘inactivity crisis’ hosted by ICSSPE at Play the Game 2015.
Sport’s inability to work for the good of society was the key theme in a session entitled ‘Playing with credibility: The corruption of international sports’ in which more speakers agreed that sport is in need of revolutionary change.
The London Olympics in 2012 were supposed to inspire a whole generation to take up sport. It did not happen and the UK government is now giving its entire sports strategy an overhaul in a nationwide consultation process.
How eager are governments around the world to make a national sports policy making people more active and meeting some of the most important global threats to sport? This will be tested over the next year as UNESCO asks all countries to discuss a new “International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport”
In a two-day conference on ‘sport and prison’, experts will discuss the effects of sport in prisons, and present the results of a survey about sport programme management in European prisons.
While parents largely support the element of competition in sport as an educational tool, the vast majority of children are far less enthusiastic, says a new British study among schoolchildren and their parents.
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