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leisure opportunities 14 December - 10 January 2019 Issue 752
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Third of children live sedentary lives Less than one in five (17.5 per cent) children and young people in England are meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines of more than 60 minutes of activity a day. Perhaps most worryingly, a third of children (32.9 per cent) lead inactive, sedentary lives, doing fewer than 30 minutes of physical activity a day. The figures comes from Sport England's Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, published on 6 December. The survey is the largest ever of its kind and gives a comprehensive insight into how children in England
■■A third of children now do fewer than
are taking part in sport and physical
30 minutes of physical activity a day
activity, both in and out of school. Responding to the figures, Sport
The report is based on responses from more than 130,000 children
England CEO Tim Hollingsworth
in England, aged between five and
said urgent action was needed to
16, during the academic year from
tackle childhood inactivity.
September 2017 to July 2018.
“I am calling for a national focus on
Other findings include that
the health and wellbeing of our nation’s
nearly a fourth of children (23 per
children and for the whole system to be
Our children deserve better
cent) leave primary school unable
united in delivering change," Hollingsworth
to swim 25 metres unaided.
said. (For more comments, see p.4).
Tim Hollingsworth
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p8
New grant seen as softening of 'no compromise' approach
p12
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p18