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Community Sport DeliveryCOVID-19OSS News PostsPolicy

Irish government invests in sport to improve Covid-19 health

THE IRISH Government has agreed a funding package of £76m (85m Euros) to sport as recognition that sport in all its forms is playing a…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson2 November 2020
CommentOSS News PostsPolicySport Participation

Scottish Sport and Civic Society (Pt4)

Towards a manifesto for sport in civic Scotland By CHARLIE RAEBURN (OSS Founder & Chairman) In this final article in my recent series, which seeks…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson11 September 2020
Community Sport DeliveryCOVID-19OSS NewsPolicy

Scottish sport to return from lockdown – the guidelines

SPORT is on its way back ... but still with 'physical' distancing as part of activity. The Scottish Government (Thursday 28 May) confirmed plans to…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson21 May 2020
CommentCommunity Sport DeliveryPolicy

The planning key to unlocking community health benefits – NPF4

Scotland is currently shaping a new National Planning Framework (NPF4) as it looks long-term to creating a country more fitted to the health of its…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson11 May 2020
Community Sport DeliveryOSS NewsPolicyResearchResearch Papers

Poverty identified as main barrier to sport in Scotland

THE MAIN difference between people who play sport in Scotland in the 21st century and those who don’t lies in levels of deprivation, according to…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson30 March 2020
OSS NewsPolicyResearchResearch Papers

Investigating the disability barriers to sport

THE Observatory for Sport in Scotland is launching a review of research into disability sport in Scotland in partnership with the Scottish Disability Sport (SDS)…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson27 February 2020
Community Sport DeliveryOSS NewsPolicyResearchResearch Papers

More intelligent data needed to inform and improve Scottish sport

PEOPLE working across different areas of sport in Scotland have told the OSS that there is a need for improved use and availability of data…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson6 February 2020
CommentCommunity Sport DeliveryOSS NewsPolicyResearchResearch Papers

Can Scotland make social prescribing work?

THE OSS has welcomed the Scottish Parliament's report on 'Social Prescribing' and urged the government to act on its recommendations to invest five percent of…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson3 February 2020
CommentCommunity Sport DeliveryOSS NewsPolicyResearch

Prescribing activity same as prescribing drugs say MSPs

MSPs have recommended a change in medical thinking in Scotland by placing social prescriptions on the same level as medical prescriptions and stating that the…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson11 December 2019
Community Sport DeliveryEventsOSS NewsPolicyResearch

Ann Budge welcomes delegates from across Europe to National Sport Summit

More than 200 delegates have now signed up to discuss and debate Scotland’s ability to change its culture and use sport more effectively to improve…
David Ferguson
David Ferguson15 October 2019
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