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Policy Goal:

Fostering a closer link between schools and local communities/sports associations

At schools, we will promote initiatives including the implementation of cooperation toward the development of comprehensive community sports clubs in accordance with the local sports environment and other conditions. As a fundamental measure toward this end, we will strive to secure superior instructors through such means as actively promoting the use of local instructors, and other human resources, as assistants to teachers and special part-time lecturers. Furthermore, in order to create environments in which schoolchildren are able to safely enjoy sports in richly verdant grounds, we will facilitate the growing of grass on outdoor sports grounds, in accordance with the situation of the school and other factors.

As regards extracurricular sports club activities, in order to meet the various needs of schoolchildren's sports, we are promoting the use of local instructors in extracurricular sports club activities and are addressing the situation so that extracurricular sports club activities may be jointly implemented in multiple schools in line with schools' situations and other factors. We will also work toward further enhancing this as part of the educational activities of schools by promoting measures at schools so that they will carry out reviews of the management of extracurricular sports club activities while paying attention to management that respects schoolchildren's identity as well as flexible and appropriate management, for example.