Doctors have hit out at government plans to tackle gang culture by introducing boxing clubs in schools. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is providing 25,000 to fund the initiative but the British Medical Association (BMA) is opposed to the scheme. According to The Birmingham Post, a BMA spokeswoman called for a ban on boxing due to the risk of brain damage. 'There are a lot of other sports which require discipline such as judo or swimming but don't have the risk of brain injury. We just don't think this is the right way forward,' she said. Schools in Birmingham, Tyne Tees and Wear, and the London borough of Newsham would receive the funding under plans announced by the Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe MP. The Amateur Boxing Association would work with the schools under the plans, having previously helped introduce the sport to physical education lessons in the south-east London area of Bromley last year. ...
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Doctors have hit out at government plans to tackle gang culture by introducing boxing clubs in schools. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is providing 25,000 to fund the initiative but the British Medical Association (BMA) is opposed to the scheme. According to The Birmingham Post, a BMA spokeswoman called for a ban on boxing due to the risk of brain damage. 'There are a lot of other sports which require discipline such as judo or swimming but don't have the risk of brain injury. We just don't think this is the right way forward,' she said. Schools in Birmingham, Tyne Tees and Wear, and the London borough of Newsham would receive the funding under plans announced by the Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe MP. The Amateur Boxing Association would work with the schools under the plans, having previously helped introduce the sport to physical education lessons in the south-east London area of Bromley last year. ...