The policy choices being made today will shape our societies' wellbeing for years to come. As the world responds to COVID-19, we propose one overarching question to guide countries' efforts: are we making the world better for children?
Source: The Lancet, July 2020
The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed today that the Primary PE and Sport Premium funding will continue at £320 million for the 2020/21 academic year.
Source: afpe.org.uk July 2020
Latest figures from Savanta ComRes for Sport England – based on data collected from 2,000 adults between 19 and 22 June – show that less than a third (30 per cent) of adults achieved the recommended level of 150 minutes of exercise a week.
Source: Savanta Comres survey, June 2020
This paper summarises key evidence relating to the impact of Covid-19 on children and young people. With an ever-changing landscape, limited ability to hear directly from children and with a narrow window for data capture, this document is “of the moment”, condensing the latest quantitative evidence from a range of external sources.
Source: Youth Sport Trust, June 2020
Four million young people say they plan to do more sport and exercise as they come out of lockdown and return to school.
Source: Youth Sport Trust, June 2020
The report discusses a number of key areas including managing long-term conditions in children in the community, the learning disability health check programme and the transition process from children’s to adults’ services.
Source: CSP June 2020
In our survey, we found a workforce keenly interested to keep the flexibility to work remotely moving forward and thinking of the office as a place that supports work that can’t be done, or is harder to do, while working remotely.
Source: Hana, May 2020
By April, 2020, over 90% of the world's students were unable to physically attend school. Closures intended to slow the pandemic's spread have been controversial and distinctly double-edged.Children and adolescents should be involved in the rebuilding at every step and allowed to decide whether Gen C will stand for something more than coronavirus.
Source: The Lancet, June 2020
Activity Alliance has published Reopening Activity: An inclusive response, in consultation with partners across sport, leisure and disability equality. The national charity wants providers to consider the guidance as part of their ongoing commitment to disabled people’s inclusion.
Source: Activity Alliance, June 2020
To better understand how it impacts mortality, scientists from the University of Cambridge looked at data from 168 countries. Results suggest at least 3.9 million premature fatalities are warded off every year in people between 40 and 74 years old as a result of exercise.
Source: Lancet, July 2020
Over 19 million adults in England (the equivalent of more than 4 in 10) live with one of more longstanding health condition, and, prior to the pandemic, this group were almost twice as likely to be inactive compared to people without a health condition.
Source: Sport England, June 2020
Tim Hollingsworth, CEO of Sport England: Cycling doubled from 8% to 16% in the past week (end of May/start of June), the number of people walking has increased to around two thirds of all adults.
Source: Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, June 2020
Comparing data for March 29, 2020, with baseline data from Jan 3 to Feb 6, 2020, we saw a 63% overall reduction in movement, with retail and recreational areas (decreased by 85%; not surprising given restrictions imposed on this sector) and transit stations (decreased by 75%) showing the largest reductions.
Source: The Lancet, June 2020
To avoid being ‘just another’ diversity report, there are some points of difference from previous work in this area. We have sought to reframe the diversity debate so that rather than saying that the charity sector has a (‘racial’) diversity problem, we say that racism is a significant and unresolved issue in the charitable sector just as it is in the rest of society.
Source: Acevo June 2020
Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months of physical distancing represents a large proportion of a young person's life during a sensitive period of development, so it is possible that the effects will be more potent than for adults.
Local authorities will be given new tools to support cyclists to create a greener and more resilient transport network.
Source: Department for Transport, June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a problem that has been with us for a long time. Results from COVID-19 research must apply to everyone in the community who will be a candidate for treatment or prevention, and BAME individuals—often over-represented in the toll of the disease—should be an integral part of that effort.
Source: The Lancet, June 2020
Although the theme of the ‘local’ and ‘self-sufficient’ is the official line, the language adopted in the promotion of garden villages makes great play of their strategic location for long distance commuting, near such and such motorway junction or within easy reach of such and such fast road. The developments are generally in the wrong location for sustainable modes of transport. Land to build might be cheap in the middle of the countryside, with public money to ‘open up land’ by funding major
Reducing motorized transport and increasing active transport (i.e. transport by walking, cycling and other active modes) may reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve health. But, active modes of transport are not zero emitters.
Source: Nature.com June 2020
According to a survey the network conducted on behalf of the European Commission during the crisis, for two-thirds of the respondents e-teaching was a new experience but the majority think online learning came to stay.
Source: School Education Gateway, May 2020
