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Hanah Cockroft has been speaking to 5 Live Breakfast鈥檚 Rachel Burden about a new campaign which aims to help involve and inspire children to take part in sport.

麻豆社 Children's and Education, the Premier League and ParalympicsGB have launched Super Movers for Every Body.

It's a campaign aimed to engage disabled children and those with special educational needs in sport and physical activity.

The seven-time Paralympic champion says her own experience with PE in school involved watching others do a typical lesson while she sat in the corner doing her own physio exercises.

鈥淭hat was over 20 years ago now and it breaks my heart that I鈥檓 still visiting schools and that鈥檚 still the same story because there鈥檚 no reason for it to be.鈥�

Currently 1.5 million children in England have special educational needs or are disabled, but only one in four disabled children take part in physical activity at school.

Super Movers for Every Body will release thousands of kits to schools, parents and carers.

A spokesperson from the Department for Education said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e committed to playing our part in supporting all pupils to be physically active. Our cross-Government action plan on school sports was updated last year to encourage settings to offer all young people 鈥� including those with special educational needs 鈥� at least two hours of PE each week.

"We are also supporting schools to provide high quality PE and sport to children with special educational needs through new tools and resources delivered through our Inclusion 2024 grant. This includes a Hub which provides resources for teachers.鈥�

This clip is originally from 5 Live Breakfast on the 30th April 2024.

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