The Department of Culture, Media and Sport announced an increase in funding for school sports.
Key points:
- By 2012 high quality coaching and competition will be on offer to all school children in all the main sports like cricket, tennis and athletics.
- Sport England also announced the first phase of government plans to offer young people more sport outside of school. The £36 million ‘Sport Unlimited’ scheme is designed to attract into sport those young people who do not take part in sport regularly. It will set up 4000 taster sessions across England in non-traditional sports, including cycling, sailing, kayaking, American football and dodgeball. The nationwide scheme will be available from the beginning of this new school term.
- The extra investment was put in to offer all 5-16 year olds five hours of government funded sport a week, two in school and three out. All 16-19 year olds will be offered three hours of out of school sport a week.
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