SOLC- Queens Park-Meeting

[Big Dave]

It's a statutory duty but the statute is quiet on exactly how those facilties have to be provided.

You sure? In Sept last year Lord Moynhan, outgoing chairman of the British Olympic Association said,

"We should be looking at changing the law to make provision of sport and recreation opportunity a statutory requirement.
"At the moment in England it's discretionary and once it's discretionary it's inevitable that councillors will be looking for discretionary cutbacks first."

That surprised me, hence the question.

[therealjr]

I'm pretty sure it is. Perhaps what the former Miniature for Sport meant was that there should be a standardisation of what has to be provided?

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[Big Dave]

I just found that Sport & Recreation Services are discretionary in an  interesting report entitled "Local authority Sport and Recreation Services in England: Where next?"

This link downloads it as a pdf: http://tinyurl.com/qje7q3h It's 56 pages.