Conservatives launch health policy paper

The Conservative Party published their green paper on health on Wednesday, containing a number of recommendations, namely devolving part of the public health budget to local authorities in a bid to reduce the size of central government. There were also several aspects of direct relevance to school sports, including the reiteration of a previously announced policy to create a School Olympics, to run alongside the 2012 Games.

The School Olympics is designed to increase school participation in sport, and funding would come from National Lottery reforms which would direct a greater proportion of Lottery funding (£30million) towards sport.  £10million a year of this new funding would be given to the Youth Sports Trust to run the School Olympics.