On the Results of the Expertise of Normative Acts of the Regions of the Russian Federation and Foreign Countries to Identify the Best Practices of Legal Regulation of Children and Youth, Student and Adaptive Sports
The article describes the results of the expertise of normative acts of 22 regions of Russia, carried out by the authors in order to identify the best practices of legal regulation of children and youth, student and adaptive sports. The analysis of the listed normative acts has showed that the provisions on youth, student and adaptive sports were reflected through the consolidation of the relevant norms as the powers of the authorities of the subjects, the powers of local governments, priority areas of support or principles of legislation, provisions on additional support. Some normative acts contain separate articles or chapters devoted to physical education and the development of physical culture and sports in educational organizations, as well as devoted to adaptive physical culture. The provisions on children and youth, student and adaptive sports are most extensively reflected in the corresponding laws of the city of Moscow, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Sverdlovsk Oblast, the Omsk Oblast, the Novosibirsk Oblast. The studied issue has received the smallest amount of legal regulation in the law of the Samara Oblast. The article also provides the results of a selective expertise of the regulations of the autonomous communities of Spain and the regulations of some US states. Based on the results of the expertise, recommendations have been formulated for the further improvement of the Russian regional legislation in the studied field. In particular, it has been recommended to formulate and consolidate the norms determined by the characteristics of a particular region, to include them in the text of law provisions on specific measures, in particular, on the development of sports infrastructure, using the possibilities of the institution of social partnership, to include provisions aimed at creating a positive attitude towards a healthy lifestyle and sports from an early age, tolerant attitude towards physically impaired athletes.