Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 12 March (HL6256), what assessment they have made of the extent to which it would aid the spread of good practice in the effective use of the PE and Sport Premium if schools which felt that they had used that Premium particularly well were encouraged to broadcast that message and supporting information on social media on 4 April using a common hashtag.

The department supports schools sharing good practice to maximise effective use of the premium through social media and other channels. It is up to schools to decide how and when to do so but the department’s blog for teachers, provides a way for schools to share how they are using their PE and Sport Premium. The department’s blog is available at: https://teaching.blog.gov.uk/category/pe-and-sport-premium/. The department will also look at whether there are further ways to support schools to share how they use the funding.

Other sources of shared good practice for schools include the attached Ofsted report published in October 2014, which identifies and shares good practice to maximise effective use of the funding. Sport England has also produced short films on using the PE and sport premium effectively; the films can be viewed at: http://www.sportengland.org/our-work/children-and-young-people/primary-school-sport/.