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Launch of 2012 Legacy Action Plan
The Leagacy Action Plan Before, during and after:making the most of the London 2012 Games has been launched. You can download the document by clicking here. Tessa Jowell the Minister for the Olympics told us the following.
This is the Government’s first detailed statement on legacy, and it is the first time that a host city has published such a document before their Olympiad has even begun.
The document fulfils the commitment to publish a Legacy Action Plan, following the publication of Our Promise for 2012 in June 2007. The five promises are:
1. To make the
2. To transform the heart of
3. To inspire a generation of young people;
4. To make the Olympic Park a blueprint for sustainable living;
5. To demonstrate that the
This new document outlines the ways in which the Government will deliver on these promises through new programmes and the unique added-value of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to existing programmes.
Under each promise the plan sets out between two and four headline ambitions and details the major programmes that will contribute towards achieving that aim. A robust and transparent governance system has also been put in place to drive progress, and this will be monitored alongside the delivery of PSA 22 (Deliver a successful Olympic Games and Paralympic Games with a sustainable legacy and get more children and young people taking part in high quality PE and sport).
The document contains details of many exciting initiatives, including jobs, skills and business programmes such as the London 2012 Business network; the London 2012 Education Programme that will touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people; and sport and physical activity initiatives that will hope will breed a generation of sports enthusiasts. Further programmes will be created and existing programmes and ideas developed over the next four years and we will report on progress regularly.
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