The decline in physical activity by the young is suddenly getting noticed, with much hand wringing in the newspapers over the past few weeks. Blame is being levelled at everything from the sell-off of playing fields over the past few decades, and the squandering of the staff goodwill that after-hours school sports always depended on, to the growing reluctance of parents to allow their children to walk to school (see Talking Point, p16).
Lots of laudable stuff is getting done, including the launch of the Living for Sport programme last week (see Big Interview, p9), the creation of more than 200 specialist schools where the emphasis is on sport, and the lottery-funded Sport Action Zones.
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