The Government is providing funding of £150 million per year for academic years 2013/14 and 2014/15 to provide new, substantial primary school sport funding. This funding is being jointly provided by the Departments for Education, Health and Culture, Media and Sport, and will see money going directly to primary school headteachers to spend on improving the quality of sport and PE for all their children. The sport funding can only be spent on sport and PE provision in schools.

Funding for schools will be calculated by the number of primary aged pupils (between the ages of 5 and 11) as at the annual schools census in January 2013. All schools with 17 or more primary-aged pupils will receive a lump sum of £8000 plus a premium of £5 per pupil. Smaller schools will receive £500 per pupil.

Schools will have to spend the sport funding on improving their provision of PE and sport, but they will have the freedom to choose they do this. Schools will be held to account for how they spend the sport funding. Ofsted will strengthen its coverage of sport and PE within the Inspectors’ Handbook and supporting guidance, so that schools and inspectors know how sport and PE will be assessed in future as part of the school’s overall provision offered.

Full details about this funding can be found at:

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/adminandfinance/financialmanagement/b00222858/primary-school-sport-funding/Primar

Updated: PE & Sport Premium funding extended for a further year - Chancellor George Osborne announced in his AutumnStatement that the government will continue its £150 million per year of funding for primary PE & school sport into 2015-16.

The Government initially promised two years of school sport funding, and the announcement means that it has been secured for another year.