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Funding cuts will 'decimate' school sport • Government accused of betraying London 2012 promises• Youth Sports Trust chief calls decision 'incomprehensible'The government has been accused of betraying the promises made to secure the London 2012 Games by scrapping the school sport programme with less than two years to go until the Olympics.Baroness Sue Campbell, the chair of the Youth Sports Trust, said the decision to incorporate the £162m ringfenced for a network of 450 school sport co-ordinators and other specialist programmes into the general education budget would "decimate" the gains made in the past decade."This is in direct contradiction of the promises Seb [Coe] made," Campbell said. "The biggest promise we made in Singapore was to bring sport to life for children at home and around the world. We are doing that abroad through the International Inspiration programme while we are decimating it at home a year before the Games. It's incomprehensible."Governing bodies, who must also deal with a severe reduction in the funding reserved for capital projects through Sport England, are understood to be concerned that cuts to the network will hurt their grassroots programmes.Campbell said: "This doesn't just affect sport in schools. Over the last 10 years this has become a very important route through which governing bodies deliver their grassroots strategies. That's particularly true of Olympic sport. The school sports partnerships have become an integral part of sports provision."The decision to reallocate the funding and concentrate on encouraging competitive sport in schools through a new national Olympic-style competition was also criticised abroad.Campbell said the scheme had become the model for others in New Zealand and Australia. Wenda Donaldson, director of community sport at the Australian Sports Commission, said: "I am absolutely devastated to hear of the cuts to the school sport partnership models. I am astounded that such an amazing and world-leading initiative has been lost to the communities it serviced."School sportsOlympic games 2012Owen Gibsonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |