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Featured News
05 Jun 2025
PE & School Sport: The Annual Report 2025
Our latest PE and School sport report highlights the issues facing children and young people today. The scale and complexity of challenges facing children and young people continues to grow.
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19 Jun 2024
The role of breakfast clubs and before/after school sport and physical activity - Factsheet
14 Jun 2024
PE & School Sport: The Annual Report 2024
Our latest PE and School Sport Report highlights the issues facing children and young people today and the need to take urgent action. The world is rapidly changing - innovative thinking and creative solutions are required if we are to fully harness the power of physical activity to build brighter futures for children and young people.
06 Jun 2024
PE and School Sport Report survey - Teachers 2024
New research showing that teachers are concerned about children’s physical and mental health and recognise the benefits of play and sport.
06 Jun 2024
PE and School Sport Report survey - Parents 2024
New research shows the latest views and attitudes of parents on the importance of sport and play.
03 Jun 2024
Absenteeism in school - Factsheet
13 May 2024
The social value of free physical activity in schools
Free to access school sport and physical activity is most valuable to those who are least likely to access it outside of the school environment, including children who are disabled or receiving free school meals.
03 Apr 2024
School exclusions are on the rise
The Youth Sport Trust and Leeds Beckett University have together funded a PhD studentship that will explore what role PE (and sport), in a range of alternative provision settings, plays in supporting the transition of young people back into mainstream schools.
08 Jan 2024
Youth leadership and volunteering - Factsheet
20 Dec 2023
Set for Success Evaluation
Developing young people’s life skills
13 Dec 2023
Secondary Teacher Training Programme 2022/23
The legacy of STT in enhancing PE, school sport and physical activity provision in secondary schools
29 Nov 2023
The benefits of sport participation and physical activity in schools
This powerful new research shows the importance of young people taking part in sport and physical activity at school, and crucially continuing to take part throughout exam season.
28 Nov 2023
Who’s doing what? How patterns of children’s physical activity have changed since the pandemic
The Active-6 project led by researchers at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Exercise, Nutrition, and Health Sciences and Bristol Medical School and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), has been exploring how Year 6’s physical activity has changed since the pandemic.