Dear prime minister (Sunak or Truss): please sort out sport in schools | Emma John
Lack of strategy from government means PE is being squeezed for time and investment is badly targetedForget Santa. If you really, really want something for Christmas this year, be it better social care or lower energy bills, the correct procedure is to write to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. Last month Lotte Wubben-Moy inspired England’s European Championship-winning football team to post an open letter to the two Conservative leadership candidates, asking for football to be made available for all schoolgirls. After the women’s gold and men’s bronze in the Commonwealth Games the England hockey teams followed up with their own wishlist.Both letters requested a guaranteed minimum of two hours a week of PE; England Hockey has also asked for team...