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Featured News
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.
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02 Aug 2021
Healthy Lifestyle Champions
This report summarises the independent external evaluation of the Healthy Lifestyle Champions programme conducted by spear.
02 Aug 2021
Girls Active Insight and Impact Report 2020-21
This report evaluates the Youth Sport Trust's Girls Active programme for 2020-21.
02 Aug 2021
Leadership, Coaching and Volunteering Programme 2020-2021
This report summarises the independent evaluation of the programme that was conducted by Free Thought Research in the academic year 2020-21.
01 Jul 2021
Girls Active Secondary National Report 2020-21
This report summarises responses to the Girls Active Pre-Intervention Questionnaire that female pupils completed between November 2020 and May 2021.
01 Jul 2021
Girls Active Primary National Report 2020-21
This report summarises responses to the Girls Active Pre-Intervention Questionnaire that female pupils completed between December 2020 and May 2021.
01 Mar 2021
Wellbeing Survey
The wellbeing of children at school continues to be a top priority for parents with 2/3 of parents (64%) believe that the wellbeing of pupils is more important than their academic attainment.
25 Feb 2021
Impact Report 2020
The following findings were presented as part of our 2020 Impact Report - published in February 2021. A full version of the report is available for download on this page.
01 Oct 2020
Cornwall Healthy Movers
Healthy Movers aims to increase children’s self-esteem and wellbeing, and develop their physical literacy skills, which all help children gain a better start to their life.
01 Sep 2020
Returning to School after COVID-19
In March 2020, schools closed their doors to the majority of their pupils and further restrictions were introduced in response to Covid-19. The aim of this report was to understand the current provision of both timetabled and extracurricular PE and any barriers to delivery, particularly in the light of ongoing Government guidelines and restrictions (e.g. maintaining class bubbles, cleaning and changing rules etc.), so that we can continue to support teachers and children during these challenging times.
01 Aug 2020
Youth Leadership Opportunities
This original piece of YST research seeks to understand what young people themselves want from their journey as a school and community sports leader.
20 Jul 2020
Leadership Interventions in Wales
A number of research activities were conducted throughout the year to gain a comprehensive understanding of the leadership interventions running in Wales. This report summarises the findings from these research activities.
01 Jul 2020
Girls Active Northern Ireland
Girls Active Northern Ireland is an award-winning, school-based intervention, designed to provide a support framework for schools to review and increase participation in physical education (PE), sport and physical activity by adolescent girls. The following report evaluated the impact of Girls Active Northern Ireland from its inception in 2016 to 2020.