Launched in 2020 thanks to a record £1m grant from the London Marathon Foundation, Levelling the Playing Field uses the power of sport and physical activity to engage and improve health and life conditions for ethnically diverse children who are more likely to enter, or are already involved with, the Criminal Justice System.
Levelling the Playing Field augments its partners’ impact by fostering multi-agency partnerships, offering extensive staff training, including mentoring qualifications, sourcing and distributing funding (including over half a million pounds through multiple funding streams) and raising their profile through case studies and regional and national awards events.
The project’s impact is being evaluated by the research team from the University of Birmingham’s School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences. This Playbook accompanies their academic research (published in autumn 2023).
This Playbook is for those working in sport and physical activity, statutory services, criminal justice, local government, police, Police & Crime Commissioners, specialist community organisations; equality, diversity and inclusion, commissioners or funders – in fact, anyone looking for examples of good practice in using sport and physical activity to reduce inequalities and crime and improve life chances. On a daily basis, our wonderful
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