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Private schools warned: share your sports or lose tax breaks

Published on August 20, 2012,

Private schools should have to share their sports facilities with state primaries in return for the £100m-a-year tax breaks they enjoy through their charitable status, according to the outgoing chairman of the British Olympic Association. This is from the Observer…

The intervention from Lord Moynihan, who oversaw Team GB’s impressive medals haul at London 2012, will place further pressure on ministers, who are facing fierce criticism for failing to deliver the promised Olympic legacy for grassroots sport. (more…)

 

State schools ‘letting down’ Olympians of the future

Published on August 7, 2012,

The Telegraph reports Lord Coe saying that state schools must do more to provide pupils with the chance to take part in sport and to encourage teachers to coach young athletes outside the timetable.

Without a significant improvement, the “once in a lifetime opportunity” presented by the London Olympics would be missed, said the chairman of the Games organising committee. (more…)

 

School playing fields: 21 sell-offs have been approved by coalition

Published on August 7, 2012,

The Guardian reports that education secretary, Michael Gove, has approved of the disposal of more than 20 school playing fields since the coalition came to power two years ago, despite a pledge to protect sports pitches from development.

Figures released by the Department for Education show that the sale of school sports fields continues even though ministers declared in the coalition agreement they would “seek to protect school playing fields”. (more…)

 

Olympic legacy: school sports provision patchy across UK, admits Jeremy Hunt

Published on August 6, 2012,

Continued coverage today of the state of sports in schools, especially state schools, following comments by Lord Moynihan calling for a major increase in Government spending to build a lasting legacy from the London games. This is from the Guardian.

School sports provision is patchy in some places at the moment, the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has admitted. (more…)

 

Olympics 2012: BOA calls for overhaul of school sport

Published on August 3, 2012,

The Guardian reports the chairman of the British Olympic Association as saying it is “wholly unacceptable” that half of Team GB’s gold medallists in Beijing four years ago were privately educated and calling for an overhaul of school sport policy to redress the balance.

Lord Moynihan said the figure was “one of the worst statistics in British sport” and that it should be a priority to make it a more accurate reflection of society, where 7% of children are privately educated. (more…)

 
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