People are invited to create an emblem that conveys a message of inclusion and respect in sport for clubs, fans and players across the country to mark their support for the campaign. The competition is targeted at young people but is open to anyone with creative flair.
Rugby Union star Ben Cohen will create a short list of the top designs from all the entries, followed by a public vote in January to select the winning design, which will become the official logo for the campaign.
The housing strategy has two main aims. First, to help drive local economies and create jobs. Unblocking the market will provide a much-needed boost to employment.
Secondly, these plans are designed to spread opportunity in our society. The Strategy will receive £400m of funding and will target those schemes that have stalled through lack of development finance. This will help to unlock the construction of 16,000 homes and support up to 32,000 jobs.
The strategy includes measure to help home buyers; help house builders; improve fairness in social housing; support the private rented sector; act on empty homes; support green housing; support older people to live independently; and extend Right to Buy while ensuring any social home bought is replaced.
It comes on top of a £500m Growing Places fund for development that Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander announced earlier this month.
Liberal Democrat Housing Minister, Andrew Stunell said:
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Children's Minister Sarah Teather launched the consultation on this important help for young children during a visit to the Church Street Nursery in Central London.
"I want us to give every child the best possible start - so free education for toddlers from the most disadvantaged homes will now be a right and not a privilege," Said Nick.
"Crucially the extra care will be flexible and easy to access. Parents across the country are bending over backwards to balance work and home. The Coalition wants to help in whatever way we can."
"If Ed Miliband is so determined to make capitalism responsible, why did he let the banks run wild on his watch and let the gap between executive pay and workers' wages grow into a chasm?
"We do need a more responsible capitalism that means employees and shareholders know the truth about pay at the top of their companies and have a say in it.
"That's what the Liberal Democrats proposed months ago and why Liberal Democrats in Government are arguing for exactly that. Ed Miliband clearly has no original ideas.
"The Liberal Democrats are determined to deliver a dynamic, innovative economy that has fairness at its heart."
This is a key Liberal Democrat policy delivered by the Coalition Government. It builds upon our achievement of extending free childcare to 15 hours a week for all three and four-year-olds.
Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said:
"Giving children a fair start in life is at the heart of what I and the Liberal Democrats are about. It is an absolute disgrace that a child born today in one the poorest neighbourhood in Sheffield, where I am an MP, can expect to live 14 years longer than one born in the wealthiest neighbourhood.
"We know that the earlier we help children the bigger difference we can make to their lives. That's why I am proud to announce plans to give 15 hours free childcare for the 140,000 two-year-olds most in danger of falling behind."
Some £500m of public money is being made available to private developers in England to help them get housing and commercial projects off the ground. The Growing Paces Fund was first outlined by Danny Alexander at the Liberal Democrat Conference in September.
The aim of the Fund is to kick-start infrastructure projects to enable the creation of new jobs and homes by getting projects moving again that have stalled due to problems with road access, contaminated land and flood risks.
Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) - made up of councils and businesses - are able to apply for the funding and then take decisions about what to prioritise locally. LEPs replaced Regional Development Agencies, created by Labour, which were centrally-controlled, unaccountable and proved unsuccessful at tackling economic inequality around the UK.
The Growing Places Fund will be shared out between LEPs, bringing £12.9m to Liverpool, £23.9m to Leeds and nearly £40m for London. There will also be £17.4m for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, £14.9m for Birmingham and Solihull and £14.2m for the South West.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said: "We're making available half a billion pounds of public money, so the developer can get on and invest billions of pounds more in building houses and employing people - in getting Britain building again. Then when the development is built and sold they can repay us the money and it can be used against to support another such development." All £500 million will be allocated from the end of January 2012.
Solihull MP Lorely Burt, who is also the Co-Chair of the Lib Dem Parliamentary Policy Committee on BIS, has welcomed the £14.9m funding for the Birmingham area.
"Everyone is shocked by watching the scenes unfold after the horrific M5 crash.
"My thoughts are with the people injured and killed and their families.
"I pay tribute to the bravery and professionalism of the fantastic Somerset emergency services who have dealt with this horrendous accident.
"There has not been a crash on this scale for many years and the implications of it will be life changing for many people.
"The whole Taunton Deane community will feel traumatised by this appalling devastation in our area."
Picture caption: Nick Clegg announces the successful bidders in Sheffield (photo: courtesy Sheffield Forgemasters)
The Deputy Prime Minister was in Sheffield on Monday announcing that the remaining £950m from the second round of the Regional Growth Fund has been allocated to 119 successful bidders.
Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats in government are determined to come out of the economic difficulties stronger by rebalancing the economy, away from the financial speculation in the City of London towards real growth across the UK.
The Regional Growth Fund is key to supporting growth in areas where private sector growth has been traditionally weaker than in London and the South East. These projects will create and protect over 200,000 private sector jobs across all parts of the country, and particularly in those parts of the country that have become too dependent on the public sector.
This is a new way of working. Using government money to stimulate private sector investment, the £1.4bn of public money will unlock around £9bn of private investment - six times as much. In total, the government expects the RGF to support more than 325,000 private sector jobs over the next three years and beyond.
The fund's two objectives are to:
"Today's offer is a clear step forward and hopefully close to a final agreement that will ensure that public sector pensions are protected, while also being fair to the taxpayer.
"The Coalition Government and the unions have been negotiating for many months now in an attempt to find a suitable solution, while Labour has been noticeably absent from the debate.
"It is extraordinary that on an issue as important as the pension of millions of public sector workers, Labour is silent. Ed Miliband now needs to tell us where he stands."
