Community and school sport: MPs to take evidence on challenges facing sports clubs and engaging underrepresented groups
MPs will explore the challenges facing grassroots sports clubs and the barriers to engagement faced by underrepresented groups, during the second session of the CMS Committee’s community and school sport inquiry.
Meeting details
Questions to the first panel, featuring the Sport and Recreation Alliance and grassroots sports charities, will focus on the challenges clubs face when it comes to funding and providing adequate facilities, as well as whether enough is being done to support volunteers in the sector. Witnesses could also be asked about whether the Government could do more to help sports clubs and schools work together.
In the second part of the session, the Committee will look at how grassroots sport can be made more engaging and accessible for traditionally underrepresented groups, such as women and girls, people with disabilities and those from deprived communities.
The Game On inquiry was launched amid warnings of a decline in the number of sporting facilities around the country and a fall in physical education provision in schools. The Committee previously took evidence from the Youth Sport Trust and former athletes.