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Technology developer X-Doria has created a new piece of wearable kit allowing
parents to set physical activity goals for their children, also enabling them
to keep tabs on how much exercise their kids are doing.
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30 Jun 2014
Independent health club Fitness 2000 in Great Yarmouth has received a £16,000 grant from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund to fully finance a new weight management programme for children using a Zig Zag Sportwall.
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14 Jun 2006
The Mayor of London is to establish a collaborative London-wide body to reduce levels of childhood obesity in the capital in line with government targets.
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08 Feb 2008
The government has unveiled a new attempt to tackle obesity in the UK by appointing a ‘minister for fitness’.
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23 Aug 2006
More than one-fifth of children starting primary school in Scotland are at risk of being
obese or overweight, according to new figures.
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16 Dec 2016
The David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) health club in Warrington opened a facility exclusively for children over the May bank holiday weekend.
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01 Jun 2004
The Department of Health is investing an extra £5m in getting children and
families to exercise and play more sports.
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19 Aug 2013
Inclusivity in tackling the country's inactivity crisis was the major theme at this year's
Elevate conference, which was attended by more than 4,000 professionals.
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17 May 2017
iZone - a new youth health and fitness concept targeted at people between the ages of 11 and 15 years old - has been unveiled at Swansea's LC leisure complex.
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01 Sep 2010
Games consoles have been fitted to workout equipment at a south Wales gym to encourage youngsters to do more exercise.
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27 Jul 2006
Parents have been warned to "take off the blinkers" over how active their children are to prevent an increase in childhood obesity levels, according to new research from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
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24 Nov 2009
Organisations providing physical activity programmes for children would attract more
public funding if they improved standards and focused on measurement, according to
ukactive.
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30 Sep 2016
Exeter City Council has invested £22,500 in a new swimming programme designed to help tackle junior obesity levels.
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10 Jul 2006
Primary school teachers in seven Leicestershire schools are being trained to incorporate
physical activity into daily lessons.
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31 Jan 2017
The Youth Sport Trust has pledged to work with schools to develop their physical
education (PE) offer following the publication of a damning report about the health of
children in the UK.
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30 Jan 2017
Fitness provider Central YMCA has announced plans for a free training programme to transform London youngsters into qualified street dance instructors.
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09 Jan 2009
Y-USA (the YMCA of the USA) has teamed up with the Healthy Weight Partnership to start
offering the Mind, Exercise, Nutrition, Do it! (MEND) programme across the US.
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01 Sep 2015
Operators in the sport and leisure sector have an opportunity to develop their
offer as a result of the government’s childhood obesity strategy, according to
Public Health England (PHE).
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20 Sep 2016
The UK government’s childhood obesity strategy has been widely slammed, but there are some exciting opportunities for the fitness sector, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 9 2016
MPs have discussed the most effective ways to use cash raised from the soft drinks tax,
including the rolling out of sports camps and daily mile initiatives.
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11 Jan 2017
Jack Shakespeare, head of ukactive Kids, argues for a collective approach to beating childhood inactivity – a trend that has consequences just as serious as childhood obesity
HCM issue 6 2018
A progress report on the government’s Sporting Future strategy has been overshadowed
by the omission of more than £300m in cuts to a programme for boosting pupil’s health. While sports
minister Tracey Crouch told Parliament there had been 'good progress on a number of fronts' since
the plan was introduced, her latest report failed to detail changes to the Healthy Pupil Capital
Programme.
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02 Feb 2018
A group of politicians has criticised “failing” PE teachers and published a wide-ranging
report with radical recommendations designed to improve physical education for school
children.
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19 Oct 2016
The government has pledged extra support and improved guidance for primary schools in England as
part of a drive to make sure all children are able to swim confidently.
news •
26 Oct 2018
US-based educational entertainment developer LeapFrog has unveiled one of
the first wearable activity trackers designed for children.
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12 May 2014
Sports and Leisure Management (SLM) – the company behind Everyone Active –
has won the first two contracts under its new public health division Everyone
Health, designed to provide evidence-based preventative and treatment
services for local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups.
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15 May 2014
Low-cost gym operator Xercise4Less will open its 50th UK club in Chesterfied later this
year.
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22 Mar 2018
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has called on the government to help make physical
activity a ‘national religion’ and harness its potential to tackle some of the biggest
challenges faced by society.
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01 Nov 2017
New research from the Children’s Health and Research Centre at the University of Exeter, UK, has found BMI is not accurate as a measure for children
HCM issue 3 2024
The Sport and Recreation Alliance (SRA) has launched a petition calling on politicians of all parties to
transform physical activity provision for children and young people as part of the Right To Be Active
campaign.
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25 Sep 2018
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Now mental health is the number one reason for people to join a
health club, do fitness professionals need a grounding in counselling
to offer a more holistic service? Kath Hudson asks the experts
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Members are telling us they need support with their mental and spiritual health and the industry is starting to see this need. Now’s the time to fast-track our response
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