Supporting Active Young People
A new scheme called Active Support aims to get excluded pupils back into education and ultimately employment. Find out how Sports Leaders UK courses are helping. Where do you go when you’ve been excluded from school? Do you roam the streets or watch TV for 12 hours a day? That’s the grim reality facing many disruptive teenagers today. But a new initiative in Luton – which has Sports Leaders UK at its very core – is changing young people’s lives forever. Active Support Luton was the brainchild of Matt Ford, a PE teacher who got fed up of watching disruptive youngsters with no prospects. “