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Year 5 Pupils thank SSP – Sports Leadership Work
PUPILS THANK THE SCHOOL SPORT PARTNERSHIP FOR HELPING THEM DEVELOP LEADERSHIP SKILLS ppe thanks
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
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 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 [...]
Warrington SSP Goes to Westminster
PRESS RELEASE – 7th December 2010 Warrington School Sport Partnership in Funding Cuts Protest A petition with over 620 thousand signatures was handed in at Downing Street today in an attempt to reverse the Coalition Governments decision to cut funding for school sport. The national campaign to ‘save our school sport’ has been supported locally [...]
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 – 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 [...]