{"id":7400,"date":"2018-09-14T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitproblog.mysites.io\/ukactive-report\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T14:52:59","slug":"ukactive-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/ukactive-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ukactive calls on government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ukactive calls on Government to use childcare cash surplus to get disadvantaged kids active <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than \u00a3346m in wasted childcare funding should be used to get children more active and fight the growing epidemic of health issues among the young, says a new report from ukactive.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled <em>Generation Inactive 2 \u2013 Nothing About Us, Without Us<\/em>, includes a recommendation that the Government should redirect the Treasury underspend allocated to tax-free childcare to physical activity programmes in disadvantaged areas.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would help support parents to keep children physically active outside of school hours, with figures showing that, over the summer holidays, children lose up to 80% of the fitness gained during term time.<\/p>\n<p>A study by the ukactive Research Institute found that the most deprived children experience a drop in cardio-respiratory fitness more than 18 times greater than their more affluent peers.<\/p>\n<p>The report, published on 12 September at the ukactive National Summit in Westminster, is based on findings from the largest consultation on children\u2019s physical activity in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>It lays out a blueprint to tackle the barriers to physical activity for children and young people, mapping out the changes needed at every level in order to take a more holistic approach to health, happiness and well-being by focusing on active play and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Longfield, Children\u2019s Commissioner for England, said,<em><strong> \u201c<\/strong>We must make physical activity and play a public health priority for all children and young people, with practical solutions to make activities more accessible and appealing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Register your details to read the full report:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukactive.com\/reports\/generation-inactive-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ukactive.com\/reports\/generation-inactive-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ukactive calls on Government to use childcare cash surplus to get disadvantaged kids active More&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,1595,1118,102,1596,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-7400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-disadvantaged-children","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-inactivity","12":"tag-report","13":"tag-ukactive"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}