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National Strategy

In order to achieve this, it aims to:

• Engage one million more people in regular sport participation.

• Produce a seamless ladder of talent development from school to elite level, with opportunities for more competition and more coaching at each level.

• Ensure every member of the sporting family, and every part of the Government, plays its part.

• DCMS – to set the overarching strategy and work with stakeholders from across the sporting landscape to guide and oversee the development of a world leading sporting nation, with key delivery bodies working together effectively to a shared vision.

• Youth Sport Trust – to support the delivery of the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People, working with Sport England and led by the DCMS and DCSF to:

• Increase the number of five to 16 year olds participating in at least two hours of high quality physical education (PE) and sport in school each week

• Create new opportunities for five to 16 year olds to participate in a further three hours each week of sporting activity

• Support the work of Sport England to create new opportunities for 16 to 19 year olds to participate in three hours each weekof sporting activities

• Sport England – to take a strategic lead for community sport, developing a world leading community sport system to sustain and increase participation and develop sporting talent at all levels:

• Grow sport participation by at least one million more regular participants by 2012 – 2013

• Sustain participation by reducing the post-16 drop off and increase user satisfaction

• Excel in developing people’s sporting talent through high quality clubs and coaches

• UK Sport – to lead on the development of world class sporting talent, focused on winning medals at international championships, and creating a world leading high performance sporting system that will support that success into the future.

UK Sport is responsible for investment in UK level programmes and therefore works in partnership with the three other Home Nation Sports Councils and Institutes alongside Sport England and the English Institute of Sport. The Government’s and UK Sport’s “ultimate goals” for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are:

• Olympic Athletes to finish fourth in the medal table

• Paralympic Athletes to finish second in the medal table but moving towards first

• More than £400m over the London Cycle (2009 – 2013) for Olympic and Paralympic athletes