ACTIVE HEALTHY KIDS WALES

AHK-WALES 2016 Report Card Launch

Great Hall

Bay Campus Fabian Way

Swansea SA1 8EN 9.30 - 1.00

25th July 2016 Outline and Introduction to the AHK-Wales 2016 Report Card Launch This is the second Active Healthy Kids Report Card for Wales following on from the

inaugural report card published in 2014. Active Healthy Kids Canada published the

first report card in 2004 and celebrated the 10th

anniversary in 2014 at an international

global summit. Forty-two countries are currently working on their 2016 report cards

that will form an “Active Healthy Kids Global Matrix “ for 2016. Wales will join this

matrix for the first time.

Common to any report card are the grades. The AHK-Wales 2016 Report Card

assigns letter grades to 10 different indicators that are grouped into two categories:

1. Strategies & Investments; Policy, Settings & Sources of Influence (School &

Childcare Settings, Family & Peers, Community & the Built Environment).

2.Behaviours that Contribute to Overall Physical Activity Levels (Active Play &

Leisure, Physical Education and Physical Activity Participation at School & in

Childcare Settings, Sedentary Behaviour, Organized Sport & Physical Activity

Participation, Active Transportation).

Letter grades (A-E) are based on an examination of current data for each indicator

against a benchmark along with an assessment of changes from 2014, international

comparisons and the presence of disparities (e.g., age, gender, disability, ethnicity,

socioeconomic status).

Together, the indicators provide a complete and robust assessment of how Wales is

doing as a country in promoting and facilitating physical activity opportunities among

children and young people.

In the AHK-Wales 2016 launch we will release the report card grades and describe how we arrived at them. We aim to then engage in discussion and debate about how we use the report card as an advocacy tool with and for children and young people and those that support them in Wales. The programme for the launch is outlined below and we warmly invite you to attend and contribute and join us for lunch to celebrate the AHK-Wales 2016 report card launch.

ACTIVE HEALTHY KIDS WALES

Is Wales Turning the Tide on Children’s Physical Activity?

Time Indicator Presentations

9.30 Welcome

Introduction

Getting Wales Moving

AHK-Wales

Jonathon Davies

Welsh Government

Professor Gareth Stratton

Swansea University

9.45 Physical Activity Levels Gareth Stratton/Richard Tyler

Swansea University

9.50 Organized Sport

Participation

Rebecca Mattingley

Sport Wales

9.55 Outdoor and Active Play Marianne Mannello

Play Wales

10.00 Active Transportation Rob Sage

Public Health Wales

10.05 Sedentary Behaviour Rebecca Cox

Welsh Government HBSC

10.10 Physical Literacy Richard Tyler

Swansea University

Coffee

10.30 DISCUSSION

+ break

Interactive discussion in pods

Includes coffee break

Children’s Activity

11.00 Family and Peer

Influences

Simon Williams

University of South Wales

11.05 School Gareth Stratton

Swansea University

11.10 Community and Built

Environment

Suzan Taylor

Glyndwr University

11.15 National Government

Policy and Investment

Malcolm Ward

Public Health Wales

11.25 Web Site- Media Content Owain Stratton, Angelica Hart Lindh

Geoshepherds

11.25 Summary GS-Panel

12.00 Lunch & Close Networking

Market Place

Media Launch

Market Place The Market Place will take place around the Great Hall walkways and hall space during the Event Launch and a Strategy Meeting being held in the afternoon. These will include promotion by stakeholders and research projects related to physical activity and health. The Market Place will be a joint event between AHK-Wales 2016 and ABMU Physical Activity Alliance. Market Place stallholders will have access to a table and space for pull up banners and other materials. Please register through Eventbrite also if you wish to be part of the Market Place for the day.