Part I: Introducing the Sport Development Landscape -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical and political context of the United Kingdom -- 3. Locating and defining sport development in a global context -- 4. Exploring organisations, policy, and practice -- 5. Starting to understand, research, and read about sport development -- 6. Key concepts and theories in sport development -- Part II: Agencies and Organisations in Delivery, Policy and Practice -- 7. Central Government and Key National Agencies -- 8. National Agencies and Key Charities -- 9. Local Authority Sport Development -- 10. National Governing Bodies of Sport -- 11. Sub Regional Agencies: The Active Partnerships in a UK Context -- 12. Voluntary and Third Sector Sport Development -- 13. Coaching, Coaches and Sport Development -- 14. Schools and Sport Development -- 15. Higher Education Sport Development -- 16. The Sport-for-Development Sector: A Role in Social Justice? -- 17. The Private Sector -- Part III: Conclusions, Future Directions and Debates -- 18. Where Next for Sport Development in the UK? -- 19. New Policy Pressures and New Delivery Models in Unstable Times

'Offering a complete introduction to sport development policy and practice, this book covers key theory, themes, issues, and debates in sports development...It outlines the organisational landscape of sport in the UK and explains important differences across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as the global context. Examining both community and elite sport, it covers public, private and third sectors, including national and local government and national governing bodies, and considers change - cultural, managerial, social and political - as an element of sport development policy, strategy and operations." -- taken from back cover.