Sport Policy in UK: The Reforms, Policy Priority and its Effect to Sport Sector during 2000 to 2012
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2016
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Public Policy and Administration Research
Abstract
The governments of United Kingdom have introduced and amend several sport policies under their governing
periods. The purpose of this report is understanding and examining UK sport policy reforms and its affect to
country’s sport sector during last decade (from 2000 to 2012). This study is used basically secondary data and
were collected by using purposive sample method according to the selected themes. While this period
governments have more concerned about the development of elite level sport rather than community sport.
However, it has been changed and has given attention to develop mass sport participation and community sport
in mid of this decades due to 2012 London Olympic. However governments got their more attention for elite
level sport development as well as gave fewer attentions for community sport as support for elite sport during
this decade. The more details have been discussed in below regarding UK sport policies.
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Community Sport, Mass Sport, Sport participation, sport polices, UK sport
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Ranjan,W.(2016). Sport Policy in UK: The Reforms, Policy Priority and its Effect to Sport Sector during 2000 to 2012. Public Policy and Administration Research, Department of Sport Science and Physical Education,University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka, ISSN 2224-5731(Paper) ISSN 2225-0972(Online)Vol.6, No.6, 2016