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5 HOUR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S SPORTS OFFER

Last year the Prime Minister announced the investment of an additional £100m (over three years 2008-11) into the National School Sport or PE, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) Strategy in order to give every child and young person (aged 5-19) the opportunity to do 5 hours of sport a week.

What does this mean for Sport England and our delivery partners in London?

Background

The National School Sport or PESSCL strategy went live in April 2003 with the objective of getting 5-16 year olds to participate in 2 hours of high quality PE and sport within and beyond the school day.

The Public Service Agreement (PSA) target was to get at least 75% of children doing this by 2006 and then 85% by 2008.

The strategy is lead jointly by Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and in the last 5 years over £1.5 billion exchequer and lottery funding has been invested.

Sport England’s role in this has been to create and strengthen school club links and provide sports volunteering and leadership opportunities for older children.

Good progress is being made and the 2006 PSA milestone was surpassed by 5%. (Please note that new PSAs were announced in October: PSA’s 12 (Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust will develop opportunities to increase participation of children in physical education and school sport) and 22 (Deliver a successful Olympic Games and Paralympic Games with a sustainable legacy and get more children and young people taking part in high quality PE and Sport).

What is the 5 Hour Offer?

On 13th July 2007, the Prime Minister announced the investment of an additional £100m (on top of existing DCSF/DCMS school sport baselines) for the National School Sport Strategy, in order to offer every young person aged 5-19 the opportunity to participate in 5 hours of PE and sport. The new money comes from both Departments (£60m from DCSF and £48m from DCMS).

For 5-16 year olds (children in statutory schooling) the offer will be made up of: 2 hours of high quality curriculum physical education and 3 hours of sport beyond the curriculum delivered through a range of school, community and club providers.

The assumption is that as children grow older they will increasingly be directed towards club/community provision. This will get them used to doing sport outside of a school setting and hopefully slow and reverse the drop in sports participation which currently occurs at 16.

The additional funding for the first time formally extends the reach of the strategy to 16-19 year olds. For 16-19 year olds the offer is 3 hours of sport, rather than 5, as unless they are studying sport they would not be accessing curriculum PE.

There are 5 strands to the 5 hour offer which will receive funding:

a.the addition of FE sports co-ordinators linked to School Sport Partnerships (DCSF lead/funded over 3 years 2008 to 2011);

b.the completion of the roll out of competition managers linked again to School Sport Partnerships (DCSF lead/funded over 3 years);

c.top up grants to School Sport Partnerships to pay for coaching (DCSF lead/funded over 3 years);

d.multi sport clubs for children with special needs linked to School Sport Partnerships (DCSF lead/funded over 3 years);

e.funding to support extended club activity designed to attract a different type of young person (DCMS lead/funded over 3 years).

Delivery Leadership

The two Departments will continue to jointly lead the overall strategy and Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust will work together to implement plans with accountability delivered through the existing delivery arrangements. Government has agreed that Sport England will lead on delivery of the DCMS funded element of the new funding package – the Extending Activity funding (6.e), with the Youth Sport Trust leading on the DCSF funded elements (6.a–6.d).

Sport England will also play a key role, through Sports Coach UK in the any investment into coaching through the School Sport Partnerships to maintain consistency with the coaching support through the UK Coaching Framework.

Extending Activity

The plan is to invest significant funding (£36 million) over 3 years into extending activity primarily focused on out of school hours and club activity (both within schools and the community). Activity will build on the existing Club Links and Step into Sport workstrands which Sport England is leading. The investment will help bring the together the worlds of school and community sport and will be a key factor in engaging the 50% of children and young people classed as semi-sporty ( doing 2/3 hours of sport at the moment).

To enable new and different children and young people to access and take up the 5 hour offer (3 hours 16-19) the current club network requires strengthening and developing along the following lines:

a.improvement of current traditional clubs to accommodate and appeal to more/a wider range of children and young people;

b.investment into new types of ‘clubs’ which may be more informal and with ‘different’ types of sports activity;

c.better signposting of opportunities and a walking time commitment to enable youngsters to access venues; and

d.a wider range of introductory activity sessions on, or linked to, school sites to introduce young people to alternative activity.

Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust have agreed with the Departments that funding for the Extending Activity strand should be devolved through County Sports Partnerships (CSPs).

In London, over 4.4 million pounds will be invested in this strand over the three years.

The CSP will act as a broker – not line manager – to bring together local partners to determine how the activity funding should be devolved. The CSP will coordinate the development of a simple and practical 3 year plan to increase take up of the 5 hour offer (3 hours 16-19).

A plan will be developed to cover each Local Education Authority/Children’s Trust area so often a CSP would oversee the development of more than one plan. The plans will be jointly approved by regional Sport England and Youth Sport Trust officers. This will then release funding quickly and simply. The Departments will also be involved in sign off.

This area of funding is designed to get an estimated 1.25m 5-19 year olds to take up the sports offer. Each CSP area will take a share of this target and set out within their plans how they would deliver this level of increased participation. London has been given a total target of 113,673 young people over the three years. This ranges from 15,312 young people in the Central London partnership to 30,624 young people in the East London partnership.

CSP trailblazers have been identified in each of the nine Sport England regions.

Both Pro Active South London and Pro Active West London will be trailblazers in London.

These trailblazers started the planning process in January 08, will submit plans to Sport England and the YST by end of February 08, have the plans signed off by mid March 08 and start delivering on the plan by 1st April 08.

The remaining 3 Pro Active London Partnerships will start the planning process in March 08, submit plans by end of May 08, have the plans signed off by early July 08 and deliver from September 08 onwards.

FE Sports Coordinators

The roll out of FE sports co-ordinators (FESCo’s) is being funded by DCSF. Ministers have decided that as the co-ordinators will link into the network of School Sport Partnerships the Youth Sport Trust will lead delivery and implementation. This workstrand will link very closely with the Extending Activity workstrand.

40 FE Colleges have been selected to take part in piloting the FESCo programme from April 08 onwards. London has 4 colleges involved in the pilot – Richmond Upon Thames College, Uxbridge College, South Thames College & Hackney Community College. A briefing has been organised for late January for the Colleges, their respective School Sports Partnership and County Sports Partnership.

All other colleges will be invited to join the programme from September 08.

For more information email katie.mitchell@sportengland.org

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