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The latest results from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey for the 2023-24 academic year have been released.
Published by Sport England, the survey shows that nationally 47.8% of children are meeting the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of taking part in an average of 60 minutes or more of sport and physical activity every day.
In Notts this figure is 47.6% which is lower than the last 12 months, however there has been in a decrease in the percentage of children taking part in less than an average of 30 minutes a day (28.8%).
In Derbyshire 45.8% of children and young people are classed as active which is lower than the last 12 months and there has been an increase in the number of children and young people taking in less than an average of 30 minutes a day (31.9%). Over half of children and young people still do not meet the CMO guidelines of an average of 60 minutes of at least moderate intensity physical activity or more a day (at least 420 mins over a week) and three in ten are classed as less active.
The report demonstrates the long-term impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic nationally on children and young people’s relationship with sport and physical activity.
The children who have been most disadvantaged from the pandemic, are those who were in nursery or school up to Year 4 in 2020.
During this report’s timeframe those children, now in school years 3 to 8 (aged 7 to 13) remain less likely to have positive attitudes towards activity and have a lower sense of opportunity.
The survey also found that children in school Year 7 are less likely to be able to swim 25 metres unaided (70% can) than older children could at this age (77% of children in school Year 11 in 2023-24 could when they were in school Year 7 in 2017-18).
Participation in sport and physical activity varies greatly, and a child or young person’s gender or ethnicity also impact how likely they are to be physically active.
Nationally significant inequalities remain in activity levels, with Black (42%) and Asian (43%) children and young people, and those from the least affluent families (45%), still less likely to play sport or be physically active than the average across all ethnicities and affluence groups. Girls (45%) are also less likely to be active than boys (51%).
Even more significantly, those with two or more characteristics of inequality, for example Asian girls, or someone less affluent from a Black background, are significantly less likely to be active than their peers with no characteristics of inequality at all.
To read the full Sport England report click here
An analysis of the local data is now also available here
