Sport England Strategy 2008-2011
Sport England have published a new strategy covering three of the years leading up to the Games. The key aims are to increase participation, identify and encourage talent earlier, to tackle ‘drop-off’ and to improve the quality of sports provision. The strategy builds on the 2012 agenda and seeks to ensure that England develops a ‘world leading community sport system’.
The strategy outlines prospective plans to be developed over the first half of 2008/09 to influence and incentivise the HE sector to partner in opportunities to increase participation in sport. It also envisages that the HE sector can increase participation by some 300,000 additional participants by 2012-13.
More generally by empowering experts and ensuring partnership working Sport England hopes the strategy will help NGBs, LAs, HEIs and FECs to deliver:
1m people doing more sport by 2012-13.
A reduction in post-16 drop-off in at least five sports: 25% by 2012-13.
A quantifiable increase in satisfaction (actual measure to be determined).
Improved talent development systems in at least 25 sports.
A major contribution to the delivery of the Five Hour Sport Offer.
To read more click here. Or go to the Resources section of our website, where the whole strategy can be found.
