{"id":409,"date":"2017-06-10T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/?p=409"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:18:13","slug":"project-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/project-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This evaluation assessed Project Ability, an initiative which aims to increase opportunities for young people with SEND to participate and progress in and through PE and school sport and enhance the skills and confidence of the school sport workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This research assessed the impact of Project Ability on young people\u2019s engagement in PE, leadership and advocacy roles and on teachers\u2019 confidence and competence to deliver inclusive practice. The research incorporated bespoke surveys, site visits, focus groups and interviews, with the provision of a participant storyboard activity to enhance engagement and showcase achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Findings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Project Ability trained almost 4,700 members of the school sport workforce and just under 2,200 young leaders to provide sporting opportunities to around 5,900 young people<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since taking part in Project Ability, two-thirds of young participants said they \u2018love\u2019 playing sport and around three-quarters said they play more sports and games (75%) and want to play more sports and games (73%) than before<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After taking part in Step into Sport, over three-quarters of young leaders think being active is important (82%) and just under three-quarters think taking part in fun activities is important (73%) \u2018a lot&#8217;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The programme had also impacted positively participant\u2019s availability to learn, with significant increases in the percentage of participants who like listening to others and learning at school \u2018a lot\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over three-quarters of teachers (77%) believe the programme had helped participants to become confident and competent leaders and provided a platform for them to support the School Games and events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>&nbsp;2016 &#8211; March 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Client:<\/strong>&nbsp;Youth Sport Trust&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-79e14b16-40ed-4206-9f5a-053151e0b201\" href=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/06\/spearcccu-Project-Ability-Evaluation-Final-Report-2017.pdf\">spear@cccu Project Ability Evaluation 2017<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/06\/spearcccu-Project-Ability-Evaluation-Final-Report-2017.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-79e14b16-40ed-4206-9f5a-053151e0b201\">Download Final Report<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evaluation assessed Project Ability, an initiative which aims to increase opportunities for young people with SEND to participate and progress in and through PE and school sport and enhance the skills and confidence of the school sport workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youth-sport-trust"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Laura Ackerley","postExcerpt":"This evaluation assessed Project Ability, an initiative which aims to increase opportunities for young people with SEND to participate and progress in and through PE and school sport and enhance the skills and confidence of the school sport workforce.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/06\/young-people-boccia-send-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.canterbury.ac.uk\/centre-for-sport-physical-education-and-activity-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}