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From the outset the cooperation between the agencies was assisted by the simple fact that members of one organization often sat in committee on another. For example, Sir Frank Price, Chairman of the West Midlands Sports Council, was Chairman of the British Water-ways Board; Jack Longland, a member of the Sports Council, served on the Countryside Commission; Lord Porchester, Chairman of the Facilities Planning Committee, was a member of the Forestry Commission for England. Happily this type of cross-representation continued to some extent for many years to come but in the early eighties began to fall away; by then, however, the Chairmen’s Policy Group, consisting of the Chairmen of THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SPORTS COUNCIL 27 all the agencies concerned in any way with sport and recreation was well in its stride.

2 There were those who feared for their positions in sport carrying, as such positions do, power and prestige that might now be in some way diminished. Others, less reactionary and more in tune with developments in Europe and elsewhere, saw this action as a giant step towards a new era, with the Government playing a strong supportive role but not wishing to be involved in day-to-day policy. The Minister with responsibility for Sport, Mr. Denis Howell, MP, was to be the Chairman of the Sports Council, which would be an advisory and not an executive body.

9 See in particular sections 41 and 53 of the Act for precise wording. In summary these sections place a duty on education authorities to provide facilities for cultural and recreative activities for primary, secondary and full and part-time further education students. Permissive powers are given to establish, manage and maintain camps, holiday classes, playing fields, play centres, gymnasia, swimming baths etc. The authority can organize games and expeditions and can pay for them. 36 SPORT AND BRITISH POLITICS SINCE 1960 10 For example: (a) West Midlands: Regional Recreation, a first study on the major needs and deficiencies in the West Midlands, February 1967; Dual Use of Existing and New Facilities for Sport and Recreation, December 1967; A Report: Proposals for the After-use of Sand and Gravel Workings for Sport and Recreational Purposes, October 1968; (b) East Midlands: The Drill-Hall as a Community Sports Centre, March 1968; Recreation in the East Midlands—An Initial Appraisal of Major Facilities, September 1967.

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