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Schools: Sport

Answer

To reinvigorate competitive school sport further, the Prime Minister announced, on 14 December 2004, that new competition managers would be added to school sport partnerships. From September 2005 there will be 17 in place, 45 by September 2006 and 90 by September 2007. Subject to the next Spending Review in 2006 the eventual ambition is to have one manager per school sport partnership by 2010. The overall role of the competition managers will be to manage and co-ordinate the planning and implementation of the national schools competition framework through a programme of inter-school competition within and across school sport partnerships. They will also reach out to local, regional and national governing body competitions. Each competition manager will be an integral part of their school sport partnership and be managed by their partnership development manager. In contrast, the role of the school sport co-ordinator is, principally, to help their school and their primary school partners to ensure that their pupils spend a minimum of two hours each week on high quality PE and school sport. As part of this process, they provide enhanced out of school hours sporting opportunities, increase participation in community sport and develop and strengthen links—particularly between key stages 2 and 3. For the first wave of competition managers partnerships will receive a grant of £37.5k which will cover the salary of their competition manager and also provide a modest budget. The posts are designed to be three-year appointments.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

266; 672 c108-9WA

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Physical education Schools Sports

Contains statistics

Yes