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Research Institute for Sport & Exercise SciencesFACULTY OF SCIENCE

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Liz Lamb

Principal Health & Physical Activity Officer

Liverpool City Council


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THEStrategies

Active City

Liverpool Children Plan 2011

Healthy Schools

SportsLinxSchool Partnerships

Neighbourhoods Local Area Agreements

Smoke Free

Liverpool

Taste for Health

Liverpool First for Health

Liverpool Sport &

Recreation Strategy

& Business Plan


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National Indicators

NI 57 Enhance quality of life Increase sport participationNI 55 (Improve poor health - reduce child obesity) % Obesity in reception age

NI 56 (Improve poor health - reduce child obesity)% Obesity in year 6 children.Contributes towards extended schools targets and the five hour PE and the sports, cultural offer.


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Is the largest health & fitness Study in Europe

Provides the most comprehensive dataset on children in children in the UK. See reports

overweight and obesity, health and skill related fitnesslifestyles and dietary behaviour

Multi-faceted project, encompassing a whole range of added initiatives targeting 0-17 years.

- Early Years -Active Play - Future Lifestyles, Active Families- Child Care Provision, Grassroots Activity


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Nutrition - Fruit Tasters , After School Clubs, Pack Lunch

Road Shows , Healthy School Weeks, Community Health Festivals

Training Coach Education - NGB, Early years, Fitness – Nutrition

Obesity Referral for Families-G.O.A.L.S Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started.

Talent ID - Fast streaming talented youngsters Development of Resources

- Active Play, Food & Fitness, Active families,


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The Team

Health & physical Activity officer

Early Years Team

Research

G.O.A.L.S

Out School Hours

Fitness Team

Nutrition Team

1x Manager + 6 x Fitness Officers

1x Manager + 4x Activity Officers + 1 Nutrition

1x Manager + 2 Nutrition Officers

1 x Manger + 5 Coaches

1 x Manger + 3 x Activity officers + P/T officers

In-kind Expertise•Prof Gareth Stratton: •Dr Alan Hackett: •Prof Tim Cable: •Ian Beattie, •Tom Fletcher: •Dr Shirley Judd, •Ruth Haig Ferguson •Gill Williams •Joanne Hitchmohe •Dr De Soysa Ruwan, •Dr Jamuna Acharya,

SportsLinx Data• Total of 53,754 children have been through the

SportsLinx fitness fun days since 1998-1999.– 38,524 9-10 year old children.– 15,230 11-12 year old children.

• Data collected annually:

Consent Form Fitness Fun Day Lifestyles Survey

Sex Endurance/aerobic fitness Food & beverage intake

Date of Birth Strength Portions of Fruit and Vegetables

Postcode Agility Sedentary behaviours

Ethnicity Explosive power Sport Participation

Medical conditions Flexibility Parental activity

Twin (y/n) Co-ordination Perception of neighbourhood safety

Referral consent Growth & development Access to equipment & facilities

Body composition Self-perceptions of fitness, healthiness, body mass.

Maturation (offset) Smoking habits

Obesity & Overweight in Liverpool: 9-10 year olds, 1998-2008

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Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight: 1998-2008 using the Cole et al. (2000) obesity definition

Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight: 1998-2008 according to the Chinn and Rona (2004) obesity definition

Using either of these two definitions of obesity the plateau in prevalence is apparent.

Skinfolds

Similar trends to BMI.

Reliability Testing

• SportsLinx has recently presented some test/re-test reliability data for the field-based measures. (Boddy LM, Stratton G, Hackett AF. The test/re-test reliability of a field-based fitness test battery in 9-10 year old schoolchildren. Oral Communication, Pediatric Work Physiology European Congress, Le Touquet, France, September, 2009).

• The study found that all anthropometric measures e.g. Height, weight, BMI, and skinfolds showed high levels of test/re-test reliability.– ICC and Chronbach’s alpha reliability ratings between 0.97-0.99.– Other markers of health related fitness, including the 20mMST (bleep

test) also showed high reliability values.

• Therefore, we are confident our methods are reliable.

• In terms of the reported prevalence of obesity and overweight coverage impacts significantly.– This may explain the jump in prevalence observed between 2006-2007 and

2007-2008 using the NCMP data & differences between the SportsLinx and NCMP data in the screening programme’s earlier cohorts.


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THEInterventions

Partnership Programmes funded by LCC, &

PCT and other Key Partner Agencies

£1.5m


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THE6 stage Intervention Offered FREE to all schools


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Future Lifestyles is the largest on-going local authority scheme designed to increase physical activity levels of young people in local neighbourhoods

Free access to all Lifestyle Centres & Activities between 3pm – 6pm

80’000 Free passes have been given out

57’000 Passes Activated

22’000 Actively using them

55’355 futures visits between January – March 2010

Employed 13 full time coaches

Future Lifestyles


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THEActive play

A Partnership between Early Years, Nurseries, Children Centres, Sure Start and Key Stage 1

Increase activity levels in children between the ages of 0-5.

A 6 week programme works alongside Foundation stage, Children and parents for

Development of Active Play Resource Pack

Families were offered a 4 week practical course, received a fantastic physical activity resource,key file and a £50 bag free equipment.


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THELiverpool Little Stars

In partnership with 24 Children Centres

Recorded a CD and Action Song book

Each Children centre recorded 1 song each

The CD holds 25 songs combination of new songs, familiar songs and nursery rhymes.

The main aim is to support & encourage increase activities between the ages 0-5

This involves working with practitioners, parents, children and other agencies to provide play in a stimulating fun environment.


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Rise & shine involves the whole school in dance activity.

Infants and juniors go on the yard each day.

It is accessible to children of all ages and abilities.

Its fun energetic and energizes the children & staff to kick start their school day. 26’000 Children take part annually.


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THEYum, Yum, Yummy…Healthy food all year round

Development by Liverpool City Council, Sportslinx project, Squash nutrition and Liverpool Early Year’s Sure Start Children Centres and Foundation Stage Team.

The resource provides positive ideas and activities to engage both children and adults in making and eating healthy

Yum, Yum, Yummy is delivered through games, play, song and dance, as well as growing, cooking and eating, children are invited to explore and delight in the fascinating world of food.


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•A-CLASS is a unique multi-disciplinary project that combines ASC with sophisticated research.

•The project offers a broad range of activities, fundamental movement skills, high intensity PA, and the PASS scheme where youngsters and their families work towards creating a change in their lifestyles.

•Participants undergo health screening, allowing sportslinx to assess various health markers, including measures of cardiovascular health and function, body composition, bone health, and physical fitness.


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G.O.A.L.S Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started.

The intervention aims to support families in making small, sustainable changes to their lifestyles through 18 weekly group sessions focussing on healthy eating, physical activity and behaviour change.


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