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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 [...]
Olympic Legacy for Youth?
Tessa Jowell, Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Olympics, gives her thoughts on whether there will be an Olympic Legacy which inspires young people to choose sport Read full Article here
Telegraph 13th October
Gareth A Davies comments on changes to school sport funding: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/schoolsports/8823897/Dont-take-sport-away-from-children.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 [...]
New Funding Announced for ‘School Games Organisers’
Wednesday 9 February 2011 Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, has today confirmed the Government’s commitment to a new strand of school sport funding to support the delivery of the nationwide School Games initiative. This announcement formed part of a keynote speech in which the Secretary of State outlined the [...]
Pupils Protest Against School Sport Cuts
Below are some links from the national media on the recent pupil protest and delivery of 620,000 signatures for the ‘Save School Sport’ petition. BBC Politics Telegraph 9th December Guardian 7th December Guardian 7th December (2) Mail Online 8th December Sky Sports – Young Ambassador Debbie Foote Sky Sports News Special Report BBC London News [...]
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 [...]