LATEST FUNDING UPDATE REGARDING THE FUTURE
OF SCHOOL SPORT PARTNERSHIPS
Dear Colleague,
You will be aware that government funding for School Sport Partnerships is in place until 31 August 2011 and that final payments under these grants, which include the funding for School Sport Co-ordinators (SSCo), have now been made to the hub schools.
Last month arrangements were announced to fund a national network of School Games Organisers. Three day’s worth of funding towards the hosting of these posts, from the Department of Health and Sport England, has initially been offered to those schools that are currently hub sites for School Sport Partnerships. By now, you will have also received
Earlier in this academic year the Secretary of State for Education announced his intention to provide funding to secondary schools to enable them to release a PE teacher for one day a week to ensure provision of specialist support to local primary schools. These PE teachers will encourage greater take up of competitive sport in primary schools and secure a local fixture network to increase the amount of intra- and inter-school competition.
After Easter you will receive formal notification of this scheme from the Department for Education (DfE), along with greater detail about the funding mechanism. In the interim, as we know many of you are eager to begin to make plans and to set timetabling arrangements for September, we thought you would be interested to know the latest position on this funding. Subject to ministerial clearance, the arrangements are likely to be, as follows:
We would reiterate again that this is subject to ministerial clearance, we understand that confirmation and further details will follow after Easter from DfE.
We hope that this
Please feel free to circulate this to your school contacts, as required. This message is being sent to all head teachers tomorrow. We look forward to working with you to continue to develop provision of school sport and to enable more young people to benefit from it.
1 The formula funding grant for School Sport Co-ordinators is currently £15,300.
