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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), in consultation with SkillsActive, has published guidance on how to promote physical activity, active play and sport for young people under 18 years of age.
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24 Feb 2009
Public health minister Anne Milton has revealed that the Change4Life initiative has recruited superhero television character Sportacus to help encourage children become more active.
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14 Sep 2011
New research shows that children who get involved with organised physical activity in the first two years of school develop more powerful reasoning skills
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Regular exercise sessions for children with multiple sclerosis (MS) may help to mitigate
the effects of the debilitating disease, scientists have reported.
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18 Aug 2015
Almost half of children and young people (46.8 per cent) in England are doing the recommended
average of 60 or more minutes of physical activity a day. The figure, from the second annual Active
Lives Children and Young People Survey, shows there has been a rise of 3.6 per cent in the number
of active children over the last year.
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05 Dec 2019
Primary school children across the UK are in 'urgent need' of increasing their physical activity levels in
order to prevent serious health problems in later life, according to new research.
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21 Jun 2012
ALTeRD, the online learning and content management system, has launched an online resource for the new Active IQ qualification: 'Teaching Physical Activity to Children'.
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23 Oct 2007
Olympic 200m breaststroke swimmer James Kirton officially launched the new Dolphin Award Swimming Lessons at the Barnsley Metrodome Leisure Centre this month.
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08 Oct 2008
Sport England has teamed up with Youth Sport Trust to develop a new online resource designed to
help more children become physically active.
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28 Apr 2021
Lack of exercise is not a major cause of childhood obesity, according to an 11-year research into child health.
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12 Jul 2010
Fusion has invested £15,000 in installing a Sportwall at Elephant & Castle Leisure Centre in London.
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10 Apr 2006
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a mathematical model that predicts
how weight and body fat in children respond to changes in diet and physical activity, with the results of the
study appearing in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
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30 Jul 2013
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
Children who are physically fit have faster and more attuned brain responses
during reading than their less-fit peers, according to a new study.
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06 Jun 2014
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
New research published in the May issue of Acta Paediatrica has found that children as young as nine-years-old increase the risk of future heart problems if they are inactive.
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16 May 2011
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
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Damian Hinds has called on sporting organisations to "work with the government" and to ensure all
children have the opportunity to take part in competitive sport.
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21 Dec 2018
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
A kids only health and fitness club has opened at the Cadbury House Hotel Health Club and Spa in Congresbury, North Somerset.
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10 Jan 2008
Esporta has extended its Fitcrew concept – which was launched last August for 12- to 15-year-olds – to include children from the age of eight.
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09 Mar 2006
Purely Nutrition – a nutritional and physical activity advisor – has devised a training scheme called Phunky Foods to teach young people about the importance of good health.
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18 May 2006
As well as being happier and fitter, children who are more physically active enjoy a range
of social benefits including increased confidence and peer acceptance, according to a new
evidence review published today (2 July).
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02 Jul 2015
The outgoing chief medical officer, professor Dame Sally Davies, has called for urgent action across
the industry – and the public sector – to help the government reach its target of halving childhood
obesity by 2030.
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10 Oct 2019
AquaPhyical has launched a new aqua fitness class aimed at children.
Called FloatFit Grow, the class teaches children the importance of maintaining an active lifestyle.
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08 Mar 2019
Amida has raised £62,500 for two local children’s hospices thanks to the help of actor James Nesbitt and artist Damien Hirst.
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26 Jul 2005
The Neptune Nauticals, SRS Leisure’s own brand of
learn-to-swim products, has introduced two new
characters to its children's range.
product innovation •
17 Feb 2017
Health and fitness professionals can receive childhood obesity prevention training thanks to a new course from the Weight Management Centre.
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14 Jun 2005
UK Active and Nike have launched the 2022 Open Doors programme. The scheme provides
children
and young people with the opportunity to connect, be active, eat well and have fun at twelve
selected schools across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool during the summer
holidays.
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20 Jul 2022
Tees Active has secured funding from the Big Lottery Fund to finance a new scheme called Active Start, designed to increase children’s participation in physical activity in the Stockton-on-Tees area.
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09 Jan 2006
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