House of Commons Education Committee School sport following London 2012: No more political football Third Report of Session 2013–14 Volume II Oral and written evidence Additional written evidence is contained in Volume III, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/educom Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 17 July 2013 HC 164-II Published on 22 July 2013 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £14.50 The Education Committee The Education Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Education and its associated public bodies. Membership at time Report agreed: Mr Graham Stuart MP (Conservative, Beverley & Holderness) (Chair) Neil Carmichael MP (Conservative, Stroud) Alex Cunningham MP (Labour, Stockton North) Bill Esterson MP (Labour, Sefton Central) Pat Glass MP (Labour, North West Durham) Charlotte Leslie MP (Conservative, Bristol North West) Siobhain McDonagh MP (Labour, Mitcham and Morden) Ian Mearns MP (Labour, Gateshead) Chris Skidmore MP (Conservative, Kingswood) Mr David Ward MP (Liberal Democrat, Bradford East) Craig Whittaker MP (Conservative, Calder Valley) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk Publications The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. 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The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 6181; the Committee’s e-mail address is [email protected] Witnesses Tuesday 14 May 2013 Page Mike Diaper OBE, Director of Community Sport, Sport England, Sue Wilkinson, Association for Physical Education, and Andy Reed, Sport and Recreation Alliance Ev 1 Derek Peaple, Head Teacher, Park House School, Linda Cairns, School Sport Co- ordinator, George Abbot School, Shaun Dowling, Head of Sport, United Learning, and Richard Saunders, Chairman, County Sports Partnership Network Ev 9 Jonathan Edwards CBE, TV presenter, world record holder and former Olympic Ev 16 gold medallist, Lynne Hutchinson, Team GB gymnast, Daniel Keatings, Team GB, gymnast, and Rachel Smith, Team GB gymnast Tuesday 21 May 2013 Wayne Allsopp, Business Development Manager, New College Leicester, Denise Gladwell, Head, St Breok Primary School, Cornwall, Paul Harris, Head, Curwen Ev 22 School, Newham, London, and Trystan Williams, Head, Springfields Academy, Wiltshire Baroness Campbell, Chair, Youth Sport Trust, Baroness Grey-Thompson and Dame Tessa Jowell Ev 31 Tuesday 11 June 2013 Edward Timpson MP, Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families, DfE Ev 22 List of printed written evidence 1 Sport England Ev 54 2 The Association for Physical Education (afPE) Ev 55 3 Sport and Recreation Alliance Ev 57 4 Derek People, Headteacher, Park House School, Chair Berkshire School Games Local Organising Committee and Chair Youth Sport Trust Headteacher Strategy Group Ev 61 5 Linda Cairns, School Sports Co-ordinator on behalf of George Abbot School, Guildford, Surrey Ev 67 6 United Learning Ev 71 7 County Sports Partnership Network Ev 71 8 New College Leicester, Learning and Sports Village Ev 73 9 Youth Sport Trust Ev 76 10 Department for Education Ev 81 List of additional written evidence (published in Volume II on the Committee’s website www.parliament.uk/educom) 1 Wellsway School Ev w1 2 Greenfield Community College Ev w1 3 St Michael’s Church of England Primary School Ev w2 4 The County Durham School Sport Steering Group Ev w3 5 Alan Watkinson (Partnership Manager-Sport Impact) Ev w4 6 The Lawn Tennis Association and the Tennis Foundation Ev w8 7 Jackie Brock Doyle OBE, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Ev w10 8 Patrick Smith Ev w12 9 Marie Walker Ev w15 10 The ASA (Amateur Swimming Association) Ev w15 11 NASUWT Ev w18 12 Woman’s Sport and Fitness Foundation Ev w21 13 London Youth Ev w23 14 Youth Charter Ev w26 15 Garth Hart Ev w30 16 Gateshead Council’s Education Gateshead Service Ev w32 17 Wellcome Trust Ev w35 18 Big Lottery Fund Ev w35 19 Lorraine Everard – PE & Sport Strategy manager on behalf of Mid Sussex Active Ev w37 20 Will Parry, Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education Ev w39 21 The Premier League (PL) Ev w41 22 National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) Ev w45 23 Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) Ev w46 24 ukactive Ev w47 25 Sports Leaders UK Ev w48 26 Rugby Football Union Ev w50 27 Local Government Association Ev w53 28 Football Association Ev w55 29 Premier Spot and Golden Mile Ev w57 30 Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester Ev w62 31 Sporting Nation Ev w62 32 Supporter to Reporter (S2R) elective, Catmose Colleges Ev w63 33 Colegrave Primary School, Stratford, London Ev w64 34 Barking Abbey School Ev w66 35 Woodlane High School, West London Ev w68 36 Plashet School, east London Ev w68 37 King Harold Academy Ev w71 38 Department of Health Ev w72 39 Ben Cox, Development Manager, London Youth Rowing Ev w73 cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [SO] Processed: [19-07-2013 11:36] Job: 029834 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/029834/029834_o001 CORRECTED TRANSCRIPT 14 05 13.xml Education Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Education Committee on Tuesday 14 May 2013 Members present: Mr Graham Stuart (Chair) Neil Carmichael Ian Mearns Alex Cunningham Mr David Ward Bill Esterson Craig Whittaker Siobhain McDonagh ________________ Examination of Witnesses Witnesses: Mike Diaper OBE, Director of Community Sport, Sport England, Sue Wilkinson, Association for Physical Education, and Andy Reed, Sport and Recreation Alliance, gave evidence. Chair: Good morning, and welcome to this session heads together and encourage greater co-operation, of the Education Committee, looking at school sports Mike? following London 2012. Welcome back, Andy—it’s Mike Diaper: Yes. The more that different sectors— nice to see you here. those in school sport, those in community sport—can Andy Reed: Thank you, Mr Stuart. work together, the greater the impact we will have. Q1 Chair: We tend to be fairly informal here and to Q3 Chair: Why do they need their heads knocking use first names, if you are all comfortable with that. together? We have had the Olympics, and we have Last week, the Secretary of State said that some heads had the school sport partnerships in the past. The needed knocking together to get county sport Secretary of State said, “Let’s have major investment partnerships and sport governing bodies to see the every year.” Surely, we should, by now, have potential in the additional funding that is being embedded a culture of co-operation and of provided to foster more competitive sports. Is that is appreciation of the importance of exercise for the what is required to ensure a healthy sporting legacy young. That should be embedded in every school. going forward—a bit more knocking together of Why isn’t it, after all that money, time and attention? heads, Sue? Andy Reed: My personal view is that we have Sue Wilkinson: I represent quite a few members probably had a lack of clarity. From our point of across the UK, and they are varied in their views, but view—the Sport and Recreation Alliance—we would I am sure some of them would support the Secretary like to see a genuine cross-departmental approach to of State, in that, perhaps, some head teachers need to this. One of the welcome things from the new moneys look more widely to support this initiative and is the work of the Departments for Culture, Media and investment. Sport, of Health and for Education on this. We would Andy Reed: We represent, again, quite a range of the people you have mentioned, who probably need their like to see that encouraged much more widely. Part of heads knocking together. I would say that, largely, that the problem is that there has not been a definition of does happen. A lot of people do have children’s strategically who is leading all these things, and of physical education right at the forefront of their desire. course when there are new moneys around, there is a The only thing I would deconstruct from the Secretary tendency to try to find out which part in which slice of State’s statement is about more competitive sport. of the cake is relevant to each. To give really strong Hopefully, we will go through some of the evidence strategic direction for this would assist the sector as a today that suggests that sport, PE and competitive whole, because there is still a certain amount of sport need to be disentangled a little so that we are uncertainty about, for example, the Ofsted inspection talking about the same thing. PE, school sport and that will follow the additional moneys. What does that competitive sport are slightly different from physical mean for schools? literacy from a very young age. So I would want to Also, we need to give the heads the skills to make deconstruct some of that statement, as you would those choices. This is an issue for many heads of imagine, before moving forward.