Your weekly physical activity bulletin

26 November 2024

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ukactive launches The Active Standard to unify and raise standards across the UK physical activity sector

The Active Standard has been officially launched by ukactive, signalling a huge step forward in the shared mission to enhance standards at fitness and leisure facilities across the UK. 

The standard, known also as ‘TAS’, has been designed for all operators – whether from the private, public or independent part of the sector – and comes free of charge as part of ukactive membership. 

The Active Standard is a baseline certification aligned with the industry’s existing standard schemes, FITcert and Quest, and provides an opportunity for operators to demonstrate their quality and compliance with UK law, therefore building consumer trust and improving reputation and resilience. 

ukactive convenes leaders from NHS, Government and industry to design blueprint for physical activity in health and care systems

Leaders from across the health sector have met to agree a new approach to embed physical activity into health and care systems, in an event hosted by ukactive at the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park.

The event, titled ‘Designing a Blueprint for Physical Activity within Integrated Care Systems (ICS), was the first step to establish a blueprint for the ideal relationship between the NHS and the physical activity sector.

A group of senior leaders from the NHS, Government, the physical activity sector, Active Partnerships, and system suppliers met at the Community Stadium to establish a comprehensive approach to embedding physical activity into ICS health strategies.

Sir Mo Farah and British sporting icons call on Government to initiate a new national plan to get kids moving

On World Children’s Day (20th November 2024), Sir Mo Farah, the Youth Sport Trust’s National School Sport Champion, joined forces with fellow sporting icons to call for the British Government to harness the power of play and sport to improve the lives of young people.

Sir Mo Farah hand-delivered an open letter addressed to the Prime Minister to Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy, at Downing Street. The letter urges the Government to create a new national plan that ensures every child has the opportunity to be physically active every day.

The multi-Olympic, World and European champion has united leading figures from British sport to support his call for change. Co-signatories include seven-time Paralympic Champion and Youth Sport Trust Champion Hannah Cockroft OBE, triple Olympic champions Max Whitlock OBE and Adam Peaty OBE, the most successful British Paralympian of all time, Dame Sarah Storey, and Paris 2024 800m gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson.

Welsh Government fund new Active Journeys programme contract delivered by Sustrans Cymru

Sustrans Cymru has been working with Welsh Government, for almost ten years, to deliver interventions to schools across Wales.

The Active Journeys programme has helped pupils, teachers, parents and guardians to become more active on their journeys to school.

The aim of the Active Journeys programme is simple: it's a behaviour change programme that's designed to get the whole school community walking, wheeling, scooting or cycling to school, reducing car use and congestion around the school gates at pick and drop off times.

Workforce Governance: Understanding harm prevention and reporting

The Workforce Governance and Registration Scheme Project is a sector-wide piece of work with the objective of supporting, safeguarding and regulating the workforce to allow everyone taking part in sport and physical activity to enjoy safe and high-quality experiences, and to be supported in achieving their goals in a positive environment.

Sport England and UK Sport are working in partnership with CIMSPA and the National Governing Bodies of Sport to pilot a national workforce registration scheme for coaches.

To gather input, CIMSPA have created a brief, anonymised survey specifically addressing the topic of ‘harm prevention and reporting’. The survey aims to expand our understanding of the policies that currently exist in relation to harm prevention and reporting in a sports coaching setting for those coaching outside of the National Governing Body ecosystem. The deadline for completing the survey is the 30th November 2024.

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