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Sport England encourage more young people to exercise

Summary

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has set Sport England a new target to involve one million more young people in regular exercise by March 2013, as ‘Increasing Participation in Sport' (HC 22) reports.

Sport England’s, the Department’s delivery body for sports participation main goal is to get more 16 to 30 year olds involved in three 30 minute sessions of moderate intensity sport on a weekly basis.

The report covers three main areas:

  • Setting the strategy for increasing sports participation
  • Sport England’s approach to increasing participation
  • Establishing the performance measurement framework for sports participation.

Despite there being a number of risks involved with ambitious results, Sport England expects the bulk of the additional participants to be delivered towards the end of the four-year target period.

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Law-Making Explained

This is a House of Commons paper (HC 22, 2010-11). It is a Report from the House of Commons, National Audit Office (NAO)

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How does it affect me?

If you are interested in sport, the 2012 Olympics or are aged between 16 and 30, this affects you.

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