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The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) is the Australian Government agency responsible for supporting and investing in sport at all levels.

• The Australian Physical Literacy Framework, Australian Sports Commission, (2025). The Australian Physical Literacy Framework was first released in 2019 by the Australian Sports Commission, after consultation with sport, education, and health sectors. It provides a shared vision, common language, and a consistent understanding of what physical literacy is and how it can be developed.
• Physical Literacy Coalition, convened by the Australian Sports Commission, brings together experts from sport, education, health and research to promote physical literacy and coordinate actions that help Australians, particularly children and young people, develop the foundations for lifelong participation in physical activity and sport. The Physical Literacy Coalition Action Plan sets out the key initiatives and partnerships that will guide the Coalition's work over 2025-2027.
• Physical Literacy: Guide for Clubs and Benefits for Clubs, Australian Sports Commission. These resources have been developed to help local sporting clubs embed physical literacy throughout the organisation. The guide outlines practical ways to put physical literacy at the heart of your club culture and environment, including training and games. The benefits document explains how physical literacy is valuable for clubs, including their participants, coaches and deliverers.
• Sporting Schools, Australian Sports Commission. An Australian Government initiative designed to help schools to increase children's participation in sport, and to connect them with community sporting opportunities.
• Sporting Schools Plus, Australian Sports Commission. A program aimed to influence the whole-school environment with students encountering impactful physical activity experiences throughout the school day.

AllPlay Move, opens in a new tab. Facilitated by Monash University Education, this initiative provides strengths- and evidence-based resources and information to help support children who experience developmental challenges or disability to fully participate in play, movement, and physical and creative activities. 'AllPlay Move' supports families, dance teachers, sports coaches and health professionals to support children and young people to engage in dance and sports programs that get children moving.

• AllPlay Footy, opens in a new tab. AllPlay Footy is a joint initiative by Monash University and the AFL. Includes resources for parents, and club coaches and coordinators.
• AllPlay Dance, opens in a new tab. The AllPlay Dance program takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the benefits of dance for children with disability, and to create resources for families and dance professionals to help children thrive in inclusive dance programs.

The Confident Girls Foundation, opens in a new tab works to ensure all girls have the opportunity and resources to become confident, resilient, and empowered young women. The Foundation raises money to help fund programs that provide a safe place for vulnerable girls to come together. These programs use the power of netball to focus on highlighting and eliminating key drivers of gender bias and assist in helping girls realise their full potential.

KIDDO, opens in a new tab is an initiative born from world-class exercise and sports science research at The University of Western Australia. The initiative translates the latest research into online resources and tools that support primary school teachers, early childhood educators, parents and carers to deliver physical literacy programs to children. They're all designed to nurture a love of physical activity that will last a lifetime.

Play Australia, opens in a new tab is the peak national advocacy organisation for play in Australia.

• 1000 Play Streets, opens in a new tab, Play Australia (accessed 21 September 2026). 1000 Play Streets is a Play Australia led movement, delivered in partnership with local government, community partners and communities to support Australians to reclaim their quiet residential streets as places for neighbours of all ages to connect and play.

Special Olympics Australia, opens in a new tab is part of a global inclusion movement using sport, health, education, and leadership programs every day around the world to end discrimination against and empower people with intellectual disabilities. Volunteers create accessible sports training, coaching, and competition opportunities which are offered in local communities throughout Australia.

• Special Olympics Young Athletes, opens in a new tab is an early childhood play program for children with and without intellectual disabilities, ages 2 to 8 years old. Young Athletes offers families, teachers, caregivers and people from the community the chance to share the joy of sports with all children. Young Athletes introduces basic sport skills, like running, kicking and throwing.
• The Inclusive Sport in Schools program, opens in a new tab improves the health and wellbeing outcomes of students with an intellectual disability and autism through the delivery of inclusive sport and physical activity in a school setting. The program increases the skills of teachers, coaches, and volunteers to provide better programs for students, underpinned by the principles of physical literacy, creating meaningful experiences that demystify intellectual disability and promote lifelong participation in sport and physical activity.
• Playing for All, opens in a new tab is a games-based program for youth (8-17) and adults (18+) with and without disability. It helps them get active, make friends and have fun while learning important life skills.
• Unified Sports, opens in a new tab promotes social inclusion by bringing people with and without intellectual disability together to play sport – because training and playing together is a quick path to understanding and acceptance.
• Sporting Schools. Special Olympics Australia has partnered with national sporting organisations (NSOs) to deliver inclusive Sport Partner programs through Sporting Schools, creating meaningful experiences that promote lifelong participation in sport and physical activity. These Sport Partner programs are suitably adapted from mainstream Sporting Schools products for delivery to students with intellectual disability or autism and in special education environments.