Tackling social exclusion should be a central aim of social policy. In this fully revised and updated new edition of his groundbreaking study, Sport and Social Exclusion, Mike Collins has assembled a vast array of evidence from a range of global sources to demonstrate how the effects of social exclusion are as evident in sport as they are in any area of society. The book uses sport as an important case study for critical reflection on existing social policy and explores sport's role as a source of new initiatives for tackling exclusion.

Mike Collins was a Senior Lecturer in Recreation Management at Loughborough University for over ten years before retiring. Prior to this, he was Head of Research Strategy and Planning at the Sports Council from its founding, and active in the Council of Europe and what is now the Countryside Recreation Network. He edited Examining Sports Development (Routledge, 2008). He is currently Professor of Sports Development at the University of Gloucestershire, and still active in the new Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity.

Tess Kay lectured at Loughborough and researched in women and youth sport; edited Fathering through Sport and Leisure ( Routledge, 2009), and is now Professor of Sport & Social Sciences at Brunel University, where she founded and directs the Centre for Sport Health and Wellbeing. She is co-authoring Localizing global sport for Development (2014, Bloomsbury)

1. Introduction 2. From Absolute Poverty to Social Exclusion 3. Poverty: The Core of Exclusion 4. Exclusion, Education and Young People's Sport 5. Sport, Gender and Social Exclusion 6. Exclusion and Older People in Sport 7. Social Exclusion and Sport in a Multicultural Society 8. Sport and Exclusion by Disability 9. Sport and Youth Delinquency and Crime 10. Rural and Urban Perspectives on Exclusion and Sport 11. Policy Implementation: Stronger Citizenship and Communal Social Capital Through Sport? 12. Conclusions