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ANNOUNCEMENT
School Sport Partnerships have recently been in the news following the comprehensive spending review in October 2010 with regards to cuts in funding from the Department for Education. The latest annoucement from the Secretary of State has confirmed that:
Funding of £47 million has been confirmed to school sport partnerships from the existing sport budget for financial year 2010-11, which covers the remainder of the spring term and the summer term also. This grant is for the purpose of providing physical education and sport, particularly to embed good practice from the previous Administration’s PE and Sport Strategy and to introduce new sport competitions for more pupils as part of the Coalition Government’s School Games.
The Secretary of State has announced that he will not continue to provide ring-fenced funding for school sport partnerships beyond the summer term 2011. Instead, he is making available £65 million of new funding for schools to provide more competitive sport for their pupils. This funding will be for secondary schools to release a PE teacher from timetable for one day a week in the school years 2011/12 and 2012/13. You can find further details of the Secretary of State's announcement at http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/pressnotices/a0071098/a-new-approach-for-school-sports-decentralising-power-incentivising-competition-trusting-teachers
Any further updates will be made available here.
James Stephenson (PDM) and the Redborne School Sport Partnership team are currently working to ensure that the partnership can remain in place past the summer term 2011 and continue to deliver quality opportunities for young people to participate in PE and sport in our partnership schools. For more information please contact James Stephenson (contact details available in the 'meet the team' section).
