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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 [...]
Gove in school sports u-turn
Some of the funding for the School Sports Partnership will be spared from cuts, Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced. Ministers had previously branded the programme, which co-ordinates action at different levels of the schools system, to encourage more participation in sport, wasteful and a “complete failure”. But a concerted campaign on behalf of the [...]
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 [...]
Cuts to School Sport – 30/11/10
Public Health Plans to Empower Communities – Independent Healthy Lives, Healthy People – the future of public health outlined Hugh Robertson insists School Sport funding s now the responsibility of headteachers – Telegraph Gove Defends cuts Amidst Athletes’ Anger – BBC News Politics Sir Michael Parkinson on Sport – BBC News Pooled resources often offer [...]
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 [...]
News on School Sport Cuts 20/11/10
Guardian – 22nd November Channel 4 – 21st November BBC Politics Show Guardian / Observer – 20th November Guardian – 20th November
Sir Steve supports School Sport
Steve Redgrave, speaking from the launch of the Matalan ‘Sporting Promise’ programme at Sport City on 12th November (an event at which children from Warrington School Sport Partnership – Grappenhall Hall – were present) said that there ‘had never been a more important time to be increasing sporting opportunities for young people’. Read the full [...]
End of the level playing fields
Privately educated Michael Gove is scrapping a hugely successful strategy which transformed PE uptake in state schools On the day of the spending review last month, Michael Gove, the education secretary, announced he was scrapping the plan to improve sport in schools. The schools, of course, are not private, like those attended by Gove (Robert [...]