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<p>PE and school sport play an important part in supporting pupils to recover from
the effects of school closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Government has confirmed
the overall funding for the Primary PE and sport premium will continue at £320 million
for the 2021/22 academic year. Funding will be allocated according to a formula and
details will be confirmed in the autumn as in previous years. Schools will be permitted
to carry forward any unspent PE and sport premium funding from the current academic
year to ensure that this is spent to benefit primary pupils’ physical education, school
sport and physical activity recovery.</p><p><br> In June 2021, the Department announced
£1.4 billion of additional funding for education recovery. This is in addition to
the £1.7 billion already committed, bringing total investment announced for education
recovery over the past year to over £3 billion. Schools have the flexibility to determine
how they choose to spend some of this funding to support the needs of their pupils,
including on activities to support health and wellbeing where needed. The Government
has also provided £10.1 million of funding to support schools to reopen their sports
facilities and increase the opportunity for children and young people to take part
in extra-curricular and community sport.</p><p> </p>
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