Karen Erikson, Inclusion Lead at The Lakes School in Cumbria, a Youth Sport Trust Lead Inclusion School, discusses the importance of giving a voice to young people with SEND as schools return.

The Youth Sport Trust is calling on the education sector to reframe the conversation sparked by The Difference’s 2024 report, Who Is Losing Learning?, which revealed a record 32 million days of learning lost in England in 2022/23, driven by rising suspensions and exclusions.

Dr Sam Browning, Mum, GP and Learning Disability Clinical Lead, shares her experiences and blogs for the Youth Sport Trust about how Inclusion 2020 is supporting young people with SEND to access PE and school sport.

The Youth Sport Trust Girls Active survey has been running annually since 2016 and this year showed only 64% of girls enjoyed PE in comparison to 86% of boys.

Children’s Mental Health Week (1 to 7 February 2021).

With the General Election moving closer each day, this week will see most political parties releasing their manifestos, putting forward their vision of what they aspire to deliver if they form the next government

The Youth Sport Trust has a wide-range of support options for schools. This area of our website offers an introduction to a mixture of free-to-access and paid-for options for schools to browse and find what best fits their needs. For ease, these options have been split between the different categories listed below.

Through teacher and learner resources and a flexible training package, My Personal Best supports teachers to explicitly plan for and deliver a life skills PE curriculum.

The Youth Sport Trust offers a broad range of open access and national programmes, as well as targeted interventions, and smaller projects or pilots which target a specific group or local area. Find out more here about the different ways in which your school can get involved.

Boys Move is a professional development programme designed to equip educators with the principles of how to use sport and play to address the mental health and behaviour issues of adolescent boys, improve their wellbeing, and engage them with school.

Enjoyment. It’s what most of us in the sport, physical activity and PE world first think of when it comes to taking part in sport. After all, if we don’t enjoy it, what’s the point? Sadly, that isn’t the case for everyone.

Felicity shares her experience in sport and her opportunity to be a Young Role Model as part of the Inclusive Youth Leadership programme.