Parents who push their children into playing specific sports from a young age risk alienating them from physical exercise for life, it has been claimed. The Sunday Times reports Baroness Sue Campbell, chair of UK Sport, saying that having children of two and three-years-old playing sports such as rugby or football is like asking them to read Shakespeare at the same age. “What you want is a much more general development of basic movement skills,” she said.
Labour’s shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has revealed that Labour could bring back the education maintenance allowance for 16- to 18-year-olds. Speaking to the Mirror, Hunt also said his party would restore traditional values to the classroom to drive up standards. He has warned schools that they will not be allowed to compromise on “attendance, punctuality, discipline and good manners”.
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