This document provides a concise summary of the latest available information and evidence on the contribution that sport can make to these key outcomes; and uses local examples to show how with limited investment and effective partnership working partner agencies throughout the county are developing innovative schemes to maximise sports impact.
It is for senior officers and members of local authorities, local strategic partnerships, primary care trusts and other sporting and non-sporting agencies and demonstrates how sport can be used to deliver priority aims, objectives and targets in strategic and corporate plans including local area agreements, local public service agreements, community strategies; health improvement plans; children and young people’s plans; corporate and service plans and other key strategic documents. It confirms the role that sport can play within comprehensive performance assessment, both as a contributor to the corporate assessment and to the outcomes of the children and young people, culture and environment service blocks.
The document promotes further partnership working between sport and other sectors and makes the case for further investment in sport in the county. We believe that Investment in Sport is good value for money and that sport warrants investment as a meaningful activity both in its own right and because it can be a positive vehicle
for addressing other local and national priorities. If the benefits that can be obtained through sport are to be realised all agencies need to take a proactive approach to utilising sport as a delivery mechanism and to raising levels of active participation in sport.
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