Speeches by Hinds.

“I want to come back to an interesting point that we talked about earlier. I think we need to tease it out into a proposal or at least an outline proposal. If you have a 3G astro, that is great and some football clubs can easily afford to pay £50 an hour, but a small community group cannot. The question is what to do ab…”

“HAF is the holiday activities and food fund. We should spell that out for the benefit of everybody here.”

“Can we talk about some of the things that are changing in schools? We have already talked about the opening school facilities fund. It is not the first of its kind; over the years, there have been many attempts to get more schools to open up. There are two other things. One is the wraparound programme, which has been a…”

“Andy, your organisation does some of that. Do you want to unpack that a bit?”

“Who should? How do you make it happen?”

“To working with schools, and sometimes that means using school facilities, but sometimes it means getting the kids out of school to come to the club or doing things before and after school, working in partnership.”

“Can we come back to working with schools? It is probably worth saying—I do not know if you agree—that some of the national governing body programmes are 10 times better than they used to be when I was growing up. It is like night and day. Some work better than others, and I am interested in your thoughts on the success…”

“Are there any particular sports the provision of which has shown to reduce the drop-off in schools?”

“Can we come back to working with schools? It is probably worth saying—I do not know if you agree—that some of the national governing body programmes are 10 times better than they used to be when I was growing up. It is like night and day. Some work better than others, and I am interested in your thoughts on the success…”

“To working with schools, and sometimes that means using school facilities, but sometimes it means getting the kids out of school to come to the club or doing things before and after school, working in partnership.”

“Who should? How do you make it happen?”

“Andy, your organisation does some of that. Do you want to unpack that a bit?”

“I want to come back to an interesting point that we talked about earlier. I think we need to tease it out into a proposal or at least an outline proposal. If you have a 3G astro, that is great and some football clubs can easily afford to pay £50 an hour, but a small community group cannot. The question is what to do ab…”

“Can we talk about some of the things that are changing in schools? We have already talked about the opening school facilities fund. It is not the first of its kind; over the years, there have been many attempts to get more schools to open up. There are two other things. One is the wraparound programme, which has been a…”

“HAF is the holiday activities and food fund. We should spell that out for the benefit of everybody here.”

“For my last question, I want to go back to the question about the drop-off in girls’ participation in sport. Notwithstanding whatever the gap may be at age five, we know that in the teenage years, there is quite a substantial falloff. Stephanie mentioned concerns about mental health, and so on. These things are becomin…”

“You have teed me up for two other questions I was going to ask. It was an interesting question about all these extra sports that are available now that did not used to be. Dodgeball is a big thing for kids at the moment. Also, lots of girls play cricket, football and so on. One big question is to what extent that then …”

“That would be the opposite of what a lot of people would think. That is worth dwelling on. Do you want to say more about why it might be important to separate boys and girls for some of the time?”

“But with writing skills, we have figured out that in the early years foundation stage, we need to have a real focus on writing. It is more about holding the pencil and so on. Is that the issue when we talk about the skills gap, or is it more about stuff at home and cultural things? What is the combination?”

“Can I come back to girls? Stephanie, you mentioned the skills gap even at Year R. What do you do about that?”