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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 [...]
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 [...]
January 11th – Recent News on School Sport
Below are links to some of the most recent updates on the government’s decision to reduce school sport funding. There are still concerns that a valuable and successful National infrastructure will be dismantled, leaving PE and School Sport back where it was 10 years ago. With even the Queen’s Christmas message focusing on the power [...]
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 [...]