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Who is responsible for school sport?
Which Government department is responsible for improvements in school sport? How will improvements in participation and engagement for young people aged 5-19 be measured? Are there any targets? What could be the impact of reductions to the capacity of School Sport Partnerships. Such issues were debated recently in the house of commons. For any analysis [...]
Telegraph Comments on School Sport
Follow the link to read the telegraph article outlining a feared reduction in school sport opportunities across the country following the Comprehensive Spending Review: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/8807140/London-2012-Olympics-fears-over-future-of-schools-sports-cast-doubts-over-Games-legacy-claims.html
Project Ability Success!!
Warrington SSP and William Beamont Community High School have been successful in their bid to become a ‘Project Ability’ school. Project Ability aims to establish a national network of 50 of the most successful mainstream and special schools at providing opportunities for young disabled pupils to take part in sport. These schools will receive funding [...]
Observer Comments on School Games
http://m.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/sep/24/school-games-olympics-legacy-2012?cat=education&type=article Toby Helm, the Observer’s Political Editor, comments on the Government’s School Games
New Government Website – Your School Games
Today sees the launch of the government’s new website; Your School Games! In the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, log onto their website for more information on how to register your school and so creating a year round calendar of competitions for all your students. The School Games will officially start in September [...]
School Sport Vital To The Olympic Legacy
Eleanor Oldroyd presenter of Thursday night’s 5 live sports, will be focusing on London’s 2012 Olympic Games both on air and on her blog. She is hoping that the Summer Olympics will inspire children to make sport a part of their lives, for the rest of their lives. Eleanor says that although not everyone is going to [...]
Early Christmas Present for School Sport!
December 20th School Sport Partnerships have today been given a small lifeline by the Government in its decision to continue to fund the national programme to the end of the academic year, and then to provide a reduced rate of funding until 2013. This decision, which comes after 2 months of campaigning following the decision [...]
Some SSP facts
There has been much written, reported and said on the subject of School Sport Partnerships subject since the Comprehensive Spending Review and Michael Gove’s decision to remove all ringfenced funding, and repeated use has been made of statistics to either demonstrate the efficacy or the inadequacy of the SSP networks. Unfortunately, many of the statistics [...]
Cuts to School Sport – 27/11/10
Follow the link to read Des Kelly’s report on cuts to funding for School Sport Partnerships Radio Shropshire 2.04 mins in and 2.47 mins – here School Sport to be debated in Parliament on Tuesday 30th November National Young Ambassador Talking to Radio 4 on the ‘You and Yours’ show The NUT adds its online [...]
PM Rethinks Cuts to School Sports – Nov 2010
David Cameron may be forced to backtrack on ConDem plans to slash school sports funding by £162million amid growing outrage over the cuts. The Prime Minister has held crisis talks at No 10 with school sports co-ordinators from his own constituency of Witney, Oxon, to brief him about the full impact of the proposed cuts [...]