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Safeguarding Youth Sports Clubs: What to Check Before Your Child Joins
When choosing a youth sports club, it takes only a short check to recognise a well-prepared organisation by verifying a few concrete safeguarding…
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Children’s sport as an entitlement rather than a reward — safeguarding, specialisation, injury, cost and the reasons children stop playing.
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Early Specialisation in Children's Sport: The Case for Waiting
Parents of talented nine-year-olds are under pressure: coaches pushing to focus on one sport, other kids' successes looming, and social media…
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The Cost of Playing: How Money Decides Who Gets to Be an Athlete
When Janet couldn't afford the rising fees for her daughter's basketball team, she had to make a tough choice. "She just loved it," Janet recalls…
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Why Teenage Girls Leave Sport — and How to Keep More of Them Playing
More than 1 million teenage girls in the UK fall out of love with sport. A 2022 Women in Sport survey found that 43% of girls who had seen themselves…