Analyzing Sports Development in the UK: Policies and Approaches

This report provides a comprehensive overview of sports development in the UK, focusing on the social policy context and various approaches employed to promote sports and physical activity. It begins by exploring the role of sports development in bringing about social change and its impact on individuals and communities. The report delves into the 'Sporting Future' strategy, highlighting its five key factors for success and potential barriers to its implementation. It then examines the roles of organizations like the Central Council for Physical Recreation and Sports England, including funding and initiatives. The report further describes different approaches to sports development, such as intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and the 'sport plus' approach. It also details various initiatives like the IDEALS scheme and international partnerships, emphasizing their goals and outcomes. The conclusion stresses the importance of sports development for the community, the UK government's shift towards broader sports engagement, and the need for individual and community initiatives to promote active and sustainable well-being.

Understanding Sports
Development and how
Sports is also good for
us

INTRODUCTION
Sports development is a concept that focuses on bringing a social change by taking
initiatives towards sports activities. Sports and physical activities are tools that brings positive
change in the lives of individual and whole community. Sports plays a vital role in shaping one's
personality and career development. Sporting future is necessary for a nation to become active
and progress in different sectors (Pielke Jr and et. al., 2020). Sports is also good for us as a group
of individual forms a community and every individual must put a step towards the sports. This
reports covers the importance of sports for an individual, how necessary is to make people aware
about it, what policies and strategies the UK government is taking for citizen to maintain their
graph of activeness. Sports development council role is to sustain the participation level of
individuals in sports and to motivate talented individual from diverse backgrounds to excel in
sports activities.
TASK 1
LO1: Review the Social Policy context of Sport Development in the UK
Sports development is a pathway that provide a chance to those who have the potential to
grow in the sports background. Participation in the sports background provide ample
opportunities and benefits for an individual stating from mental health to physical fitness. It
teaches to focus on the present as past is irrelevant and future is unpredictable. Sporting Future a
New Strategy for an Active Nation is a positive strategy for the community given by David
Cameron which focuses on the participation level of community in physical activities (Collet, C.
and et. al., 2019).
Success in sports is based on 5 factors which are physical wellbeing, metal well-being,
individual, social, community and mental development. This strategy will make an individual a
great leveller who never loose hopes, make them inform about their strength and weaknesses,
improves their observatory skills. Also this strategy is quite useful for whole community as it
will increase the social connectivity, intergroup togetherness, leveraging community leadership.
But this strategy has barriers which will obstruct its awareness for those who have least interest
in sports and physical activities, or having a mind-set against the sports development (Ridpath,
2020).

The Central Council for Physical Recreation (CCPR) is an alliance body which
represents the national sports organisation in UK. Its purpose is to seek the arrangements of
sports activities in UK and also to leverage the interest of individual and community towards
physical activities. In relation to the Wolfenden Report, the voluntary work has given great
emphasis in it. This explains that every year 5 million people undertake voluntary work to
understand the needs of the people and use their own skills in finding the solutions of different
community issues. Voluntary sectors play a crucial role in the development of sports by helping
them in search of work and futuristic career prospects. These sectors push the governments
scheme of reducing worklessness.
Sports development council role is to mandate sports for whole community without
discrimination on different factors. This department's duty is to promote, develop and coordinate
opportunities for sports and physical activities. They represent sports as a key vehicle for driving
their focus towards the active future. The council is formed with the purpose of building and
raising strategic thinking level of the community. Sports England is being lottery funded to make
competitive spirit among the community for sports and physical activities. National lottery funds
enhance the potential of players towards the sportsmen spirit (Su and Yu, 2020). These funds
have been invested in sports England to help more people live active lives. Game plan is a
blueprint of achieving success in sports. It is related to the adoption of futuristic approach in
understanding the tools and techniques in sports. Making a plan is a different thing but
implementing and focusing on that plan during the game where stress is making a home in your
brain is a troublesome. Sporting habit for life can be created by firstly creating awareness about
it. Further to ensure this it is necessary to link the sports and education institutes and promote
some voluntary work in the sports sector. The aim is to improve the quality of life and add some
value to it to live active lives. This new approach explains the new system which transforms the
success into measurable terms where it can’t be engaged in progress of sports activities of UK
individual and communities. The outcome of sporting future for active nation strategy will
redefine the principles of living an active life for UK peoples. The council mainly focuses on
distributing the funds to those who are not taking interest in sports to encourage them (Harris and
Jedlicka, 2020).

TASK 2
LO2: Describe the range of approaches to Sport Development in the UK
There are many approaches adopted by UK in sports development. The foremost is the
intrinsically approach which highlights the importance of coach in sports. Coach act as a driving
force between the players and sports. This approach can be used when environmental factors are
in favour of coaches as players are eager to learn and they will get motivation only if these
factors will not become obstacle for them. The next is the extrinsically approach which is
dependent on internal motivation of players towards sports. The extrinsic motivation can come
from peers, coaches. The next is sport plus approach which depicts the importance of sporting
organisation to achieve sports literacy and sporting activities awareness among the UK
community. This approach is vital to maintain sustainable team spirit among the players. There
are some of the sports development initiatives taken by UK for the community namely IDEALS
scheme which aims to maintain sports awareness (Graupensperger and et. al., 2020).
This scheme targets the youth and professionals between the age group 18-35. the another
initiative was the international partnership programme deals with the development of
international sport for the community. This is directly linked to the UK's major aspirations
including the 2018 Vitality Hockey Women’s World Cup in London, the 2019 Netball World
Cup in Liverpool and the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester. The model is
developed to provide high quality, safe and sustainable sports initiatives. The overall outcome of
the initiative was to sustain and retails more and more individuals in sports to create awareness at
international level. The purpose of initiatives was to develop a practical understanding of sports
and its importance for the routine life of UK community. This initiative has made a promise to
connect the young and old age people to their inspirational power for sports. The initiative was a
unique coalition of UK sports and British council to engage community in their sports interest.
These initiative have given a flashback to the community of their young age and emerge
their lost connect in sports once again. This has also developed their psychology level and their
competence level which will sharp their base of thinking. These initiatives have breakdown the
artificial barriers between sports activities and work. These initiatives have ensured that those
who do not have interest in sports as a part of their life. These initiatives have followed a process
from foundation level of sports development to excellence of final stage. These stages deal with
informing the community about the balancing of sport in working life for an individual. It also

concentrates on how sports will benefit the society by creating a strong continuous connection.
This will also analyse how much people of society are still active not only by minds but also
through their immune system (Ličen and Jedlicka, 2020). Through these initiatives they have
captured the attention of young minds from their busy schedule for sports development. This has
increased the skill set of those who have involved in this and their self-evaluation can be
analysed. These initiatives have been successful due to the voluntary partnership of community
groups as a team which have enhanced their self-esteem and teamwork.
CONCLUSION
Sports development is a vital concept which is important for community. It is an active
news for the individual community and specially for young people. UK government goals have
been shifted form the outcome of medals won to the development of spots among the
community. This will strengthen the power of sports council and will ensure that the more
engagement in their initiatives. The government is trying to secure their sporting future so that
every individual will live an active life. But there is a confusion regarding the physical activities
and sports. As not all sports are active and not all physical activities are sports. So communities
must also take initiative to be active and sustainable in their wellbeing. This will change their
attitude in a positive way.

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