The new report looks at the springboard role sports for development organisations can play in enhancing young people’s employability.
The new report looks at the springboard role sports for development organisations can play in enhancing young people's employability. New research shows how targeted sport for employability programmes in under-served communities are playing a key role in the face of the cost-of-living crisis. A new report is calling on the Government to capitalise on the role that sport can play in helping unemployed young people from disadvantaged backgrounds around the UK move into sustained work and training. Authored by researchers at the University of Bath and published during national Youth Work Week, the -Active for Employment- report is the second in a series commissioned by the Sport for Development Coalition aimed at demonstrating to policy-makers how targeted sport and physical activity-based interventions can help to tackle health and societal inequalities in under-served communities - ultimately producing multiple cost savings to the public purse. The Coalition is a growing UK-wide movement of organisations and networks using sport to intentionally generate positive health and societal outcomes. These range from improved mental wellbeing and social cohesion to reducing anti-social behaviour, crime and unemployment. The University of Bath report authors - Dr Haydn Morgan , Dr Anthony Bush and Dr Harry Bowles - are specialists in sport development and policy.
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