Since the Olympics, the government has fallen far short of a plan to encourage an active and healthier generation
Finally, seven months after the multimillion-pound closing ceremony of the £12bn Olympic Games, here it is, David Cameron's "Olympic legacy boost" for school sport – £150m, to cover all the 17,000 primary schools in England.
This is, at least, something – two and a half years after the education secretary, Michael Gove, vandalised school sport, putting a red line through £162m funding for a system that was working very well. In the runup to the Olympics, hosted by London on a promise from Tony Blair and Sebastian Coe that it would inspire a new generation, the School Sport Partnerships (SSP) structure, which organised and promoted sport across schools, was destroyed.
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