Public Service Agreement Targets
- PSA 1: To enhance the take-up of sporting opportunities by 5-16 year olds so that the percentage of school children who spend a minimum of two hours each week on high-quality PE and school sport within and beyond the curriculum from 25% in 2002 to 75% by 2006 and 85% by 2008 (joint target with the Department for Education and Skills)
- PSA 2: To halt the year-on-year increase in obesity among children under 11 years by 2010, as part of the broader strategy to tackle obesity in the population as a whole (joint target with the DfES and Department of Health).
- PSA 3: To increase the take-up of cultural and sporting opportunities by 16 and above from priority groups by 2008.
The PSA 3 target will be measured by 6 indicators. They are:
- Increasing the number who participate in active sports at least twelve times a year by 3%, and increasing the number who engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity level sports, at least three times a week by 3%.
- Increasing the number who participate in arts activity at least twice a year by 2% and increasing the number who attends arts events at least twice a year by 3%.
- Increasing the number accessing museums and galleries collections by 2%.
- Increasing the number visiting designated Historic Environment sites by 3%.
- PSA 4: To improve the productivity of the tourism, creative and leisure industries
- Efficiency target: To achieve at least 2.5% efficiency savings on our Departmental expenditure limit and Local Authority spending on leisure and culture services (2005 - 2008).
PSA Technical Note
How the Department will measure progress against its PSA targets is set out in its Technical Note.
The publication of the first set of data from the Taking Part survey in December 2005 has allowed us for the first time to measure participation and attendance in a broader, more representative, range of artforms. Using this data we have taken the opportunity to review with HM Treasury the categories of arts participation and attendance that contribute towards measurement of the arts strand of the PSA3 target.
Our aim through this PSA target is to increase the range and quality of arts opportunities available to people from under-represented groups and to address the barriers (physical, practical and attitudinal) that currently prevent them accessing these. The current arts definitions are around the more traditional artforms, such as ballet and opera. These are important, but we also want to ensure that new and emerging artforms - such as multi-media and video arts – are encouraged and supported in this respect and to reflect this in our measurement of progress.
Following discussions with HM Treasury we have agreed that three additional arts participation and five arts attendance categories can be added to the artform definitions for this PSA target to reflect this wider contribution.
A revised Technical Note (TN) is available on our website. The TN has also been updated to include the latest Taking part survey data and definitions for the Sport, Museums and Heritage targets.
Latest Performance Report
We published on the 19 December 2005 our Autumn Performance Report which details progress made towards our SR2002 and SR2004 PSA targets.
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