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From 'Sport for Good' to 'Sport for Sport's Sake': Reversing into the Past

From 'Sport for Good' to 'Sport for Sport's Sake': Reversing into the Past. Mike Collins, Visiting Professor , U of Gloucestershire Sport & Leisure History seminar London, 8 November 2010. Outline.

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From 'Sport for Good' to 'Sport for Sport's Sake': Reversing into the Past

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  1. From 'Sport for Good' to 'Sport for Sport's Sake': Reversing into the Past Mike Collins, Visiting Professor, U of Gloucestershire Sport & Leisure History seminar London, 8 November 2010

  2. Outline • From ‘sport for good’ (Caborn - improving health, regeneration, social inclusion, lifelong learning, social cohesion –see Coalter, 2007)to ‘sport for sport’s sake’(Sutcliffe) • Context and challenges ‘Examining Sports Development’ (Collins 2010a, also 2010b)

  3. Examining SD - Contexts and challenges-1 • A profession? A single Chartered body? • Why was Mapp sacked and why the move to sport for sport’s sake? • International context –why try to be like Finland when the gap is 19 countries wide? (Wilkinson & Prickett, 2009) • Domestic context 1. Inequality –gender? income /health growing again since 2005 (Hills et al, 2009, 2010, Dorling 2010)

  4. Income inequality- the UK-Finland gap(Wilkinson & Prickett, 2009)

  5. Examining SD - Contexts and challenges - 2 1 Inequality – gender? income /health growing again since 2005 (Hills et al, 2009, 2010, Dorling 2010) 2 Public Expenditure - nationally protected till 2012, then……? locally still cutting (BBC survey); budget cuts (£27m Olympics, £4.3m Sport England) 3 Time – where to find 90-150 minutes a week? Will social marketing help? 4 Obesity – 2012 - reach 32% M, 31% female, 43% manual 5 Facilities -£550m pa just for sports centre (Davis Langdon, 2003) funding for only 50% of needs to stand still, yet Inverdale Inquiry says more not needed?? (Anon,2010)

  6. Examining SD –contexts & challenges - 3 6 NGBs/Clubs - from 16.5% to 25% of population in 4 years? – why should novices join clubs? 12 National GBs promise growth over 20%, 4 over 50% - how to cope? 7 Participation – growth ‘06-08 half needed 1% pa rate, even with population increase (immigrants), yet did not meet PSA 3 targets (for women, low income groups, BEMs, Disabled - DCMS, 2009) - recessional decline also in Eire, Scotland 8 Legacy of 2012 – more medals, facilities, East End redevelopment, but NO evidence of increasing participation (Coalter,2004)

  7. Coalition decisions on sport • Sport England to be cut by 33% and UK Sport by 28%, and to merge by 2013 and save 50% of admin costs • PE School Sport & Youth Programme (PESSYP) to cease a year early to save £169m; all Specialist Schools (including for Sport) funding to cease, to save £450m; all 450 School Sports Partnerships and co-ordinators (with clubs & primary schools) to cease • Local authority sports programmes, as non-statutory, were to take ‘a huge hit’ according to Sports Minister Hugh Robertson; some sports development teams and whole sports departments would go out of business or be contracted out (likewise arts and libraries) • Though their £10m Lottery funding is safe, the above could cripple the County Sport Partnerships’ networking, and makes no sense in a country with an obesity epidemic and seeking a 2012 legacy (Sue Campbell’s letter). Only London2012 budget protected.

  8. Examining SD - Conclusions • Can we manage mass and elite sport?(Collins, 2008) – no one else has outside Scandinavia - but the huge threat and challenge of obesity remains! • …..unless the combination of coalition policies leads to riots!! Thank you! Questions/ comments?

  9. References Anon (2010) The (Inverdale) Facilities Inquiry London: CCPR Collins, M .F. (2008) ‘Public policies on sports development: Can Mass and Elite sport hold together?’ pp59-87 in Girginov, V. (ed) Management of Sports Development Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann Collins, M. (ed, 2010a) Examining Sports Development London: Routledge Collins, M. (2010b) From ‘sport for good’ to ‘sport for sport’s sake’- not a good move for sports development in England? Int Jnl of Sports Policy 2,3 :367- Coalter, F. (2004) Stuck in the blocks? in Vigor, A (ed) After the Gold Rush London: IPPR Coalter, F. (2007) A wider social role for sport: Who’s keeping the score? London: Routledge Davis Langdon (2003) Condition & refurbishment of public sector sports facilities: update of 1995 study London: Sport England DCMS (2009) Final assessment of progress on PSA 2007-8 Statistical release 11 Dec 2008 London: DCMS Dorling, D. (2010) Injustice: why social inequality persists Bristol: Policy Press Hills, J., Sefton, T., and Stewart, K. (eds, 2009)Towards a more equal society? Poverty, inequality and policy since 1997,Bristol: Policy Press Hills, J. et al (2010)An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK – Summary London: Government Equalities Office/Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion Wilkinson, R. and Prickett, K. (2009) The Spirit level: why more equal societies nearly always do better, London: Allan Lane/Penguin Press

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