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Youth Sport Trust has continued their partnership with online resource Maths of the Day for a third consecutive year to promote the importance of active learning and cross-curricular opportunities.

The Girls Active Camp aims to inspire a new host of teenage girls to become role models within schools, helping them to shape how they could make PE and physical activity more appealing to peers.

One of four objectives focuses on youth sport within the overall mission to “create a vibrant sport and recreation sector which is fit for the future”.

Play Unified, a global movement aimed at ending intolerance towards young people with intellectual disabilities, hosts an event at the House of Lords recognising a successful first year in UK schools.

Paralympic swimming champion Alice Tai has won the Youth Sport Trust Young Sportsperson of the Year award at the Lycamobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards.

YST welcomes the latest research published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, which reports that young people’s activity levels start to decline from the age of seven.

The 2017 Spring Budget saw confirmation that the Government will fund the Department for Education with £1 billion under the Soft Drink Industry Levy, funding school sport and healthy eating.

The Youth Sport Trust celebrated a host of schools, young people and teachers, with the annual awards being handed to those who have inspired and led change in PE, school sport and physical activity.

eOne’s popular superhero TV property becomes brand ambassador for National School Sport Week in June 2017.

The Youth Sport Trust will champion a new vision for PE and sport in schools at the 2017 National Conference at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry.

Education Secretary Justine Greening has announced that schools will be able to bid for a share of £415 million fund for new sports facilities.