📣 Confirmation of the Primary PE and sport premium funding 2025-2026📣

We are joining with colleagues from across the education sector today in welcoming the continuation of the Primary PE and sport premium funding. We understand the significant and ongoing challenges around the public finances, and this marks an important recognition of the value of PE and our workforce in delivering the best for young people in a time where engagement in physical activity has stagnated and hours for teaching PE have been squeezed.

Funding remains at its current level, £320million for the academic year and will continue to be paid to all eligible schools. The funding will be paid in two tranches, one this Autumn, with the following payment be paid in Spring 2026.

Kate Thornton-Bousfield, afPE CEO said "Like many others, I am breathing a big sigh of relief at this news, this investment is absolutely vital to our profession and, more importantly to our ability to deliver for young people in every school. This is testament to the hard work of our members and the wider profession, who share our ambition to move when we can to a longer term investment through the Primary PE and sport premium to allow for continuity, planning and for a focus on the future".

afPE is awaiting with great interest news on the wider levels of investment into schools and the teaching workforce. In particular, we are welcoming increased attention, understanding and investment from the Government around the particular challenges facing SEND children and young people. We are delighted to have been successful in having been named as an Inclusion 2028 delivery partner and take very seriously our responsibilities to do everything we can to improve the experiences of PE for every young person making our subject inclusive, safe and of high quality.

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