nationwide campaign to encourage young people to do at least an hour of daily exercise similar to “5 a Day” should be launched after an apparent decline in physical activity during the pandemic, MPs have said.
The Government should also launch a “Work Out to Help Out” campaign to incentivise people to get involved in organised sport, the cross-party Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee added.
The committee heard evidence that more than 100,000 fewer children in England met the minimum 60 minutes’ daily activity recommended by the Chief Medical Officer last year compared with the year before.
It added the proportion of children and young people not achieving the minimum recommended level of activity is “of significant concern”.
After each successive lockdown, sport has been one of the first things to return but activity levels for 2020 fell below the figures for the previous year among adults, young people and children
Just over half of children and young people achieved the minimum recommended level of an average 60 minutes activity a day in 2020, the…
