health and fitness: Government launches consultation to tackle fall in sport participation

lundi 3 août 2015

Government launches consultation to tackle fall in sport participation

The sports minister, Tracey Crouch, says funding must be better targeted to address drop in people doing regular exercise since post-2012 Olympics high

The government has launched a public consultation on sport participation as it seeks to address a worrying decline in the number of people taking part in regular exercise since a post-2012 Olympics high.

While there are now 1.4 million more people playing sport in England than in 2005 – when the UK won the right to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – this increase came in two short bursts: one after London’s bid was declared the winner, and another around the 2012 games themselves. The current trend is a gradual decline in the number of people playing sport regularly.