More than a half a million young people will urge David Cameron this week to drop all plans to reduce sport in schools, with pupils taking the national revolt against cuts in PE to Downing Street.
Students and teachers will take time off school to launch a "peaceful protest" in Westminster on Tuesday, lobby their MPs, then deliver a petition with more than 500,000 signatures to No 10.
The petition, circulated in schools in recent weeks, was organised by 17-year-old Debbie Foote from Grantham, Lincolnshire, after plans to axe £162m in funding were announced in October. She will be joined in London by sporting celebrities and several hundred young people who have roles as "sports ambassadors" within the network of 450 School Sport Partnerships (SSPs) that are under threat.
Last week Cameron signalled a U-turn when he said ministers would look again at education secretary Michael Gove's decision to end the ring-fenced funding to SSPs, following a national outcry. But a battle is still raging over how much funding will remain and whether the SSP structure is retained. Gove is understood never to have visited an SSP.
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