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Strategy and Policy

Local

• Physical Activity Strategy: Solihull
  Leading a physically active life brings many benefits to health and well-being and thus is an important step along the way to achieve this shared vision. In a world of finite resources it makes sense that we take a strategic approach to promoting physical activity, which encourages partnership and which is based on an analysis of need, evidence of what works and which has ownership by a wide range of stakeholders. This strategy is the first produced for Solihull, and is the result of extensive consultation with all of the numerous providers of, and enablers for physical activity in the Borough. This strategy will provide the "joined up" strategic direction for development of services and facilities for all of those providers and enablers.
• Sport and Physical Activity Strategy 2004-2009: Shropshire
  The Sport and Physical Activity Strategy for South Shropshire sets out the vision and aims of encouraging everyone in South Shropshire to adopt a more active lifestyle. This strategy sets out a detailed framework to reach out to all age groupsand areas of South Shropshire to promote a widerange of physical activity options.

Regional

• Prepare for 2012: Priorities for the West Midlands Region
  This plan details how the West Midlands will capitalise on London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to create a real legacy for residents and organisations in the West Midlands.
• Sign up for Sport: A Regional Plan for Sport in the West Midlands
  This strategy document for Sport in the Region, detailing the commitments that have been prioritised following wide scale consultation across the West Midlands to drive up participation in levels in Sport and Physical Activity to impact on a range of cross cutting agendas.
• West Midlands Health and Well-being Strategy
  The vision of the West Midlands Regional Health and Well-Being Strategy is: 'To maintain, enhance, improve and protect the health and well-being of people in the West Midlands Region and to reduce health inequalities by 2020 within environmental limits, so as not to compromise healthy life for future generations'.

National

• “Before, during and after: making the most of the London 2012 Games” 2012 Legacy
  The plan spells out how the Government is using the Games to deliver positive changes in lines with its five promises for 2012: promoting sport, regenerating east London, inspiring young people, promoting sustainability and business, tourism, jobs and skills. The legacy action plan includes new initiatives and ones that have been enhanced as a result of London staging the Games. As well as free swimming, it includes schemes to encourage walking and cycling, a huge investment in construction skills and, for the first time ever, an ‘Inspire’ mark - using the London 2012 logo to recognise outstanding non-commercial projects and events inspired by the Games.
• Briefing Paper on the Be Active, Be Healthy Strategy
  The Be Active, Be Healthy Plan was published in February 2009, setting the Governments framework for raising adult physical activity participation levels in England. The plan sits alongside the Sport England strategy “Grow, Sustain, Excel” and emphasises the physical activity legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and its contribution to the target for 2 million adults to be more active in the run up to the 2012 Games. Be Active, Be Healthy supersedes the Choosing Health: Choosing Activity Delivery Plan and provides details of an improved delivery infrastructure, new national programmes and highlights the importance of local delivery to meet community needs.
• Choosing Activity: Physical Activity Action Plan
  The plan sets out Government’s plans to encourage and co-ordinate the action of a range of departments and organisations to promote increased participation in physical activity across England. It is a summary of how we will deliver the commitments on physical activity presented in the public health white paper Choosing Health: making healthier choices easier.
• Embedding the Play Strategy
  Embedding the Play Strategy
• Game plan: A strategy for delivering government's sport and physical activity objectives
  The Game Plan document sets the Governments vision and strategy for sport from both a mass participation and performance perspective up until 2020.
• Healthy lives, brighter futures – The strategy for children and young people’s health
  This joint DH/DCSF strategy presents the Government’s vision for children and young people’s health and wellbeing. It sets out how they will build on progress through: world-class outcomes; high quality services; excellent experience in using those services; and minimising health inequalities.
• Healthy Weight, Healthy lives: A Cross Government strategy for England
  This cross-government strategy is the first step in a sustained programme to support people to maintain a healthy weight. It will be followed by a public annual report that assesses progress, looks at the latest evidence and trends, and makes recommendations for further action.
• Sport England Strategy for Sport 2008 - 2011
  Sport England has published a radical new strategy to get more people playing and enjoying sport and to help those with talent get to the very top.
• Summary of the Coalition Programme for Government
  A summary of the Coalition Programme for Government to support you and your partners in aligning physical activity developments to the emerging programme of work from the new Government.
• The National Framework for Sport
  The Framework for sport signals a new way of working through partnership to deliver a shared vision for sport. Past strategies have often failed to have a lasting and measurable impact. Once published they have become little more than reference documents that sit on the shelf to quickly become outdated. In contrast, the Framework for sport is seen more as a process than a product.
• The Physical Activity Plan Department of Health
  Be Active, Be Healthy: Launched on Wednesday, 11 February
  

  From the Department of Health website:

  ‘Be active, be healthy establishes a new framework for the delivery of physical activity alongside sport for the period leading up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, Paralympic Games and beyond. Programmes outlined in the plan will contribute to Government’s ambition of getting 2 million more people active by 2012 and have been designed to leave a lasting legacy from the Games...

  For the first time ever the plan publishes the NHS costs of physical inactivity for every PCT in England, averaging £5 million per PCT every year – almost 1000 hip replacements per PCT.