An £18 million fund to improve sports facilities in primary schools has been created using Lottery funding, with selected schools set to receive an average of £30,000 each.
It comes alongside news that the £150-million-a-year School Sport Premium, also aimed at primary schools, is to be extended for another year and will now run until 2015/16.
Both the announcements came as part of chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, which was delivered to Parliament last month.
Much of the national press coverage last month focused on the news that free school meals are to be extended to cover every pupil in reception, year 1 and year 2 from September 2014.
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