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Inspirational young ambassadors have joined 143 people across Wales in carrying the baton for the Queen’s baton relay ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

The four-day event will see 1,600 young athletes compete in 12 different sports at Loughborough University.

Sporting heroes Charlotte Edwards and Alex Danson will host a master-class for some of this year’s competing athletes to mark the start of the 2017 School Games at Loughborough University.

YST Chief Executive Alison Oliver examines the positive association between participation in physical activity and academic performance in young people.

This will be a straight doubling of the current formula and the Youth Sport Trust welcomes the fact that primaries will be able to invest further in their PE and sports provision for their students.

We are delighted to confirm this announcement also includes a section reconfirming the DfE’s commitment to doubling the Primary PE and Sport Premium from September.

More than 100 young people took part in an Allianz Dare to Believe festival with the Youth Sport Trust at the Copper Box Arena on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

The recent coverage of ‘school sports day’, questioning their value, purpose and even existence painted a false image of the health of school sport.

In recent years the UK has enjoyed success across a vast range of sports. Despite these inspiring performances, physical activity levels across the nation’s children are in decline.

The Youth Sport Trust’s Girls Active programme announced its first ever award winners, with BBC 6 Music’s Gemma Cairney, ambassador for the initiative, sharing the winners on Instagram.

The FA and the Youth Sport Trust have launched a new partnership to inspire more girls into football during National School Sport Week.

As National School Sport Week gets underway, YST Chief Executive, Ali Oliver, says PE is changing, as schools across the country get set to take part in the week-long celebration of school sport.