"Sport is a tremendous vehicle to help young people explore values such as rules, respect and teamwork," says Steve Grainger, managing director of the Youth Sport Trust. "There is also increasing awareness that sport is a meaningful diversionary activity."
There is a groundswell of appreciation of the importance of sport in society, so it is no wonder that the results of a Sport England report on young people's participation in sport attracted a few headlines in the national press.
Sport England, the English sports development agency, enlisted market research firm MORI for the poll of more than 3,000 six to 16-year-olds in England. The results were published last week in Sport England's Young People and Sport National Survey 2002. The study states: "The results are vital in improving the evidence base to enable more effective promotion of sporting opportunities for young people."
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