Bowls champion Ellen Falkner MBE on Commonwealth Games
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Bowls champion Ellen Falkner MBE on Commonwealth Games
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An unprecedented study into the wellbeing of British children is to be conducted across Manchester’s schools, as new research suggests two-thirds of parents believe it should be prioritised over academic attainment.
The Greater Manchester young people’s wellbeing programme will gather data from tens of thousands of young people across 250 secondary schools in the city in an attempt to change their perception as “people who get GCSE results”, according to the programme’s creator.
The first study of its kind in the country, the wellbeing programme will begin this autumn and will seek to ascertain young people’s feelings and concerns as well as their levels of physical activity. The information gathered will be used to help better target resources as children try to recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Majority of parents warn pandemic has made children less active
More than two-thirds of parents have warned their children are less physically active than before the start of the pandemic in a new survey.
The research, commissioned by children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust, found only a fifth of parents say their children are active for the recommended 60 minutes a day.
A further 11% say their children are currently doing no activity at all.
The Youth Sport Trust have called on the remainder of this academic year to be characterised by a renewed focus on sport, physical activity and physical education.