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Governments’ new initiative for September 2013

Between £100m and £150m has been committed by the Department for Education in a bid to help primary schools improve the quality of their sports provision.

Meaning schools each receive thousands of pounds of ring-fenced funding that must be spent on sport, with the various sporting governing bodies encouraged to help provide expertise and coaches to work alongside teachers.

The new funding comes after widespread calls for more investment in school sport to help build on the legacy potential of the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics.

Despite record investment in elite and community sport in the last six months, the government has also been criticised for making cuts in schools sports and failing to devise a national strategy for this level of sport.

Last month, a four-year long Ofsted  report concluded there was not enough strenuous physical activity in many of England's school PE lessons, with teachers tending to lack specialist training and a minority of schools playing competitive sport at a high level.

The report said PE teaching was good or outstanding in two-thirds of the primary schools it visited, an improvement on the results of its last survey in 2008, but it put much of this down to the SSP programme, saying its impact in "maximising participation and increasing competition was clearly evident in the vast majority of schools visited".

Ofsted warned that sustaining this level of improvement would be challenging against the "backdrop of greater expectations following last summer's London Games", and called for a new national strategy building on the success of SSPs.

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