The Youth Sport Trust warns that many children and young people are ill-equipped to deal with the day-to-day challenges of the 21st century. Working with teachers, parents and coaches, it wants to help youngsters develop “happy, active lifestyles” through “the life-changing potential of sport”.
The charity’s strategy, entitled Believing in Every Child’s Future, features a number of key objectives. These include positioning PE as a subject that develops children’s wellbeing and not just their sporting ability, ensuring that youth sport is “inclusive, accessible and fun” for all, driving up coaching standards in youth sport, addressing the reasons why some youngsters give up sport, and increasing the number of sports offered by schools and local communities – so every child finds a sport that suits them.
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