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Children's Rights to and in Sport: A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Policies in the Scandinavian Countries
Aalborg Univ, Dept Hlth Sci & Technol, Sports & Social Issues, Gistrup, Denmark..
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Movement, Culture and Society.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9965-0123
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Movement, Culture and Society. Norwegian Sch Sport Sci NIH, Dept Sport & Social Sci, Oslo, Norway..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6209-5066
2024 (English)In: Social Sciences, E-ISSN 2076-0760, Vol. 13, no 4, article id 216Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children's rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children's rights and well-being, with organized sport forming part of the daily lives of many children and youths. In this paper, we examine the organizational policies in Scandinavian sport in order to develop foundational knowledge about how the range of children's rights to and in sport may be supported. Comparing key policy documents of the major sports confederations in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, these analyses identify great variety in the following: 1. when and how children's rights to and in sport have been made explicit in the three countries; 2. whether the emphasis is on protection and/or provision of sport to children and youths or their participation in shaping sporting activities; 3. the degree to and ways in which such rights are regulated. In sum, our findings reflect a disparity between organizational policies in the three countries, with a more liberal and individualistic approach to public policy in the Danish context, providing some explanation of the only recent development in and scattered enaction of regulations to support children's rights to and in sports. Furthermore, we identify that political attention has mainly been drawn to the protection and provision of sports to children and youths, while their participation in shaping sport is a shared challenge for sport confederations in the Scandinavian countries and beyond.

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MDPI, 2024. Vol. 13, no 4, article id 216
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youth sport, physical activity, civil society, protection, provision, participation
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Sport and Fitness Sciences Pedagogy
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Social Sciences/Humanities
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URN: urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-8242DOI: 10.3390/socsci13040216ISI: 001210352700001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:gih-8242DiVA, id: diva2:1860527
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