The COSMO Study’s initial findings of the impact of COVID-19 on health behaviours feel familiar.
Sport England measures the nation’s engagement with sport and physical activity with our ‘Active Lives’ surveys each year.
While we use different measures to that of the COSMO study, we find similar patterns of inequality in participation, with some groups of children less likely to meet the Chief Medical Officer’s recommended amount of daily activity (an average of 60 minutes a day or more across the week), including: girls; children from less affluent backgrounds and those from Black, Asian and ‘Other’ ethnic backgrounds (shown in Figure 1).
