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University research - Children or athletes? Best practice for safeguarding elite young athletes
Author: C Brackenridge
Date Published: September 2008
Accessed at the Brunel University Research Archive (BURA).
This study address explores the status confusion between “child” and “athlete” that arises in elite sport for young people and discuss some of the challenges that this presents to sport providers. It reviews the evidence about breaches of child welfare in sport around the world and considers how the sport community can respond positively to this evidence in both policy and practice.
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