ParalympicsGB is far more than a world leading sports team winning medals across a diverse range of sports. Our mission includes driving positive, sustainable change for disabled people in UK society, using the positive power of the Paralympics and Paralympic
athletes to inspire a change in attitudes to disability and bring about equality for disabled people in sport, education, and society.
During the Paris 2024 Paralympics, we launched the transformative social impact campaign Equal Play, calling for equal access to PE and school sport for disabled children. Only one in four disabled children in the UK say they take part regularly in sport at school. Disabled children are being side lined as pressures mount on teachers to deliver inclusive PE without the training, funding and confidence to do so, meaning kids are going without sport and play - fundamentals of their happiness, confidence, physical and mental health. Equal Play advocates for four powerful changes to ensure no child is left on the side lines:
• Empower teachers with the right tools to deliver truly inclusive PE.
• Adapt teacher training to ensure teachers have the skills to deliver inclusive PE.
• Redefine how PE is seen within the school curriculum and ensure the new PE curriculum embeds inclusion.
• Increase the number of disabled people entering the teaching profession.
Find out more about Equal play here: https://paralympics.org.uk/impact/equal-play/.
Find out more about our social impact work here: https://paralympics.org.uk/impact/.