Is better local leisure coordination the key to a more active nation?
The House of Lords Select Committee on a National Plan for Sport and Recreation holds double evidence session on 16 December focusing on local delivery of sport and recreation activities. The Committee will hear from the Local Government Association, the Active Partnership Network, Community Leisure UK and others to understand how sport and recreation is delivered locally, whether opportunities and facilities are properly joined-up and what more can be done to deliver accessible opportunities for people to enjoy physical activities.
Meeting details
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
National Plan for Sport and Recreation
Chief Executive at Community Leisure UK
Chief Executive Officer at Yorkshire Sport Foundation
CEO at Active Partnerships
At 4:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
National Plan for Sport and Recreation
Chair, LGA's Culture, Tourism and Sport Board at Local Government Association (LGA)
Immediate Past Chair at The Chief Cultural & Leisure Officers Association
Possible questions include:
- Whether the delivery of sport and recreation opportunities is fragmented and disjointed.
- Whether enough high quality extra-curricular sports activities are available in schools and issues around availability of green spaces and leisure facilities in local communities.
- Whether funding mechanisms for local delivery of sport and recreation are fit for purpose.
- The role of local authorities in providing sport and recreation opportunities to help tackle obesity.
- How local authorities are responding to changes in the physical activity people undertake.