Department for Culture Media and Sport
PE and sport for young people
We aim to make sport a natural part of every young person’s life in and out of school.
To achieve this we are working closely with the Department for Children, Schools and Families, The Youth Sport Trust and Sport England to offer the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People (PESSYP). This aims to provide
- five hours of PE and sport for 5-16 year olds (including two hours of PE and one further hour in schools)
- three hours of sport a week for those between 16 and 19
Our Guide to Delivering the Five Hour Offer (External PDF) is aimed at School Sport Partnerships, County Sport Partnerships, National Governing Bodies, clubs and community.
The Get Into It! toolkit can be used by schools and providers to promote sport to young people.
To find out what sports you can do in your area visit the Sport and leisure for young people page at DirectGov.
PESSYP consists of ten programmes:
- Infrastructure
to sustain and develop Specialist Sports Colleges and School Sport Partnerships
- Professional development
to improve the quality of teaching and learning in PE and school sport through a professional development programme for teachers
- Competition
to create a world-class system for competitive school sport
- Sport Unlimited
to get 900,000 children and young people taking part in sporting activities in schools and the community by 2011
- School-Club Links
to develop links between schools and local sports clubs
- Coaching
to recruit, train and deploy more paid and volunteer coaches into schools, clubs and other community settings
- Gifted and Talented
to identify and support gifted and talented pupils in PE and Sport
- Leadership and Volunteering
to improve the quality, quantity and diversity young leaders, volunteers and role models
- Disability
to establish a national infrastructure of 450 multi-sport clubs for young disabled people
- Swimming
to achieve the National Curriculum swimming requirement for 10-11 year olds to be able to swim 25m
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