Charlotte Otter/Sustrans ©2015, all rights reserved. Children travelling to school in Bo’ness.
We’ve been talking about the health benefits of active travel for some time now. We’ve also been measuring how children make their journey to school for the past nine years.
Now, our colleagues in NHS Public Health will start using this data for a new children and young people’s health profile. And we’re delighted!
From today, the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) will use our Hands Up Scotland Survey (HUSS) data as part of their new children and young people’s health profile.
The profile brings together data from a wide variety of sources on how safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included children in Scotland are.
How the Hands Up Scotland Survey data will be used
HUSS data from 2008 to 2016 will be used to illustrate and monitor how physically active Scottish children are. Using our data, which is an official statistic in Scotland, shows how important the journey to school is for a child.
Not only is it a daily chance to be physically active, but is it a way of positively contributing towards their health and wellbeing.
The Scottish Public Health Observatory Online Profiles Tool, incorporates the seven SHANARRI indicators (Safe, Healthy, Acheiving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible, Included) from Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), a national approach to improving outcomes and supporting well-being of children in Scotland.
By including HUSS in the suite of profiles, service providers, planners and policy makers will be able to use nationally comparable information to improve their understanding of health issues relating to the people of Scotland.
It also gives users the opportunity to set these issues in a national context and to take action to improve the health of communities. The data in the new profile will be of interest to and used by all those working to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland.
Active travel to school matters
Travelling half an hour on foot or by bike to school every day meets the Chief Medical Officer’s recommendation for daily physical activity.
And it’s great for our Education and Young People team here at Sustrans Scotland to see how the benefits of active travel to school are now not just being recognised in terms of transport and education, but also being considered and measured in terms of people’s health.
We’re pleased that this is being recognised by ScotPHO and using HUSS data as a useful measure of how active children in Scotland are. While participatory sports are great, they aren’t for everyone. Meanwhile, most children have to get to and back from school every day. Making that journey by foot or by bike is an inclusive and accessible way for them to become healthier and develop healthy habits for life.
Find out more about our Hands UP Scotland Survey
Read more about our work with school to transform the school run
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