Youth Sport Trust news

A regional active play scheme targeting two to four-year-olds has been credited with providing a "wholly positive impact" on children’s attitude to learning – and ... More

An interactive toolkit has been launched to help schools in England reframe competition in school sports. Developed by children's charity Youth Sport Trust (YST), the ... More

Youth Sport Trust (YST) has set out to protect the mental health of young talented athletes by educating and preparing them for the rigours of ... More

Research by YouGov has shown 68 per cent of UK adults to be unaware of the fact that children should take part in 60 minutes ... More

Primary school staff that are helping and inspiring children in London to be active are to be celebrated in a new initiative from ukactive Kids ... More

The figures revealed in today's Active Lives Children and Young People research have been described an "urgent wake-up call" and a "national disgrace". Published today, ... More

The latest chapter of the government’s Childhood Obesity Plan – published this week – has received a mixed reaction from the physical activity sector. While ... More

Paralympic gold medallist and BBC commentator Marc Woods has been named as chair of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity ... More

The London Football Association (LFA) has moved towards a more representative board, with a third of its newly appointed members coming from black, Asian and ... More

Girls are missing out on the benefits of physical activity due to mounting pressures, a study has revealed. Data released today (7 November) by the ... More

Primary schools across the country will see PE and sport funding doubled this month in a bid to change the lives of a generation. The ... More

Baroness Sue Campbell will step down as the chair of the Youth Sport Trust after more than two decades, prompting the organisation to search for ... More

Gold medal winning Paralympian Kadeena Cox and Sir Mo Farah were awarded the top gongs at the British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSA) 2017. Cox ... More

Public health policy should be focused on preventing the decline of physical activity during childhood, not when individuals reach adolescence, according to British Medical Journal ... More

The Youth Sport Trust has laid out its vision for PE and school sport during its annual conference in Coventry. According to chief executive Alison ... More

The sport sector needs to be more proactive in analysing whether athletes are being pushed too far in pursuit of medal success, according to the ... More

Primary school teachers in seven Leicestershire schools are being trained to incorporate physical activity into daily lessons. The programme has been put together by Loughborough ... More

The Youth Sport Trust has pledged to work with schools to develop their physical education (PE) offer following the publication of a damning report about ... More

The Virgin Group has increased its involvement in the fitness and exercise sector with the launch of Virgin Sport, which aims to get more people ... More

The government has rejected the opportunity to review the school PE system, despite the publication of a parliamentary report that claimed the subject was “failing” ... More

Several black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) youths will become responsible for their peers’ physical activity offer as part of an initiative to foster a ... More

The national governing bodies (NGB) of cricket, hockey and netball have joined forces in a bid to encourage 150,000 schoolgirls to play team sport. TeamUp ... More

Several UK sports organisations – including national governing bodies and Premier League football clubs – have received millions of pounds worth of grants from the ... More

Schools will be expected to deliver at least 30 minutes of “moderate to vigorous physical activity” to its pupils each day as part of the ... More

The effectiveness of the School Games has been backed by Sport England following a six-month review – although several recommendations have been made to “future-proof” ... More