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Insight, data and research provides a wide range of valuable information to help you identify the need and strategic context for your sport and physical activity interventions.
The Herts Sport & Physical Activity Partnership uses insight to evaluate the needs of the local communities in order to co-design the most effective support alongside partners and the public.
Whether you are a policy maker, researcher, programme manager or just curious about Hertfordshire, our insight pages contain data and information from many sources as well as links to help support your work and inform your decision making.
This page brings together documents, data & tools to help you understand different audiences and provides useful information to help you show the evidence base for sport and physical activity.
Our insight offer is divided into six main sections:
- Active Lives
- Sport England
- Press Red - Our Insight Partner
- Story Map
- Insight Tools
- Data & Information
Active Lives Survey
The Sport England Active Lives surveys measure the activity levels of people across England. Sport England and two surveys are run annually: Active Lives Adult, which replaced the Active People Survey, and the world-leading Active Lives Children and Young People. Both give a unique and comprehensive view of activity trends, barriers and preferences.
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The active lives surveys measure the activity and inactivity levels of people across England
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Data from Active Lives Adult, Active Lives Children and Young People Surveys
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This is the Sport England Active Lives tool
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Sport England Inequalities Metrics |
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A detailed insight into current adult Inactivity in Hertfordshire, April 2024
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A detailed insight into the current physical activity habits of Hertfordshire's children and young people (aged 5 to 16), June 2024
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Sport England
Sport England support is key to helping the Herts Sport & Physical Activity Partnership, and 42 other Active Partnerships, focus on increasing activity levels and decreasing inactivity, working closely with those people in the local community who face the biggest barriers to being physically active.
Sport England also provide a wealth of data and insight into sport and physical activity across the nation to support this work. Below you will find links to published research, raw data and insight tools to help you explore demographic and activity data about people and places.
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Helping children feel more motivated, confident and able to get active
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Support people who work in the sport and activity sector to reach and engage disabled people
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Encouraging more women to find their way into physical activity |
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Get Moving - Helping you find great ways to move more
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Helping everyone experience the benefits that taking part in sport and physical activity brings
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Sport and physical activity organisations to be recognised as essential partners to help overcome national and local challenges
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Sport England research page
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Open data sets from sources such as government departments, the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England
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The Active Places Power tool helps you to explore England's national sports facility database
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Tackling inactivity in Further Education
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Sport England's approach to tackling inactivity, general guidance to organisations considering applying for funding or seeking to work in partnership
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Research and Data tools from Sport England
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Encouraging new volunteers in sport and physical activity |
Press Red - Our Insight Partner
Our insight partner, Press Red, apply their skills and expertise to help us understand the complexities of physical activity behaviour. Press Red’s work includes creating detailed insight into physical activity behaviour in communities across Hertfordshire. They help us to interpret Sport England metrics & tools, deep diving into specific places to aid understanding of the issues influencing active or inactive lifestyle, helping us to evaluate our work and creating a positive space to share our learning.
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Active Lives Adult Headlines April 2024
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Headline update on Adult Inactivity in Hertfordshire, April 2024, PressRed
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Active Lives Children and Young People(CYP) Update
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A detailed insight into the current physical activity habits of Hertfordshire's children and young people (aged 5 to 16), June 2024, PressRed
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A detailed insight into the current adult Inactivity in Hertfordshire, April 2024, PressRed
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Census 2021 - What's changed across Hertfordshire?
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An overview of Sport England's Inequalities Metrics for Adults |
Story Map
HSP, working with our insight partner Press Red, have compiled a one-stop-shop of insight information covering key sport and physical activity topics in the form of an interactive Story Map. This information provides valuable insight to support funding bids and advocacy work.
Click here to access the Story Map.
Insight Tools
In this section you will find useful tools that can help you find and process different sources of information. The contents range from local insight platforms such as Herts Insight, to national tools like the Office for National Statistics Census Maps and Fingertips Public Health data.
Most tools allow the user to choose a specific geographic area of focus to find detailed information and insight for a locality.
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Detailed maps of features affecting neighbourhoods across the whole of Great Britain
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Use maps to find out what people's lives were like acorss England and Wales in March 2021
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Working closely with central government and key national organisations such as Arts Council England, Sport England and The National Archives to influence the development of national policies and to advocate for positve change within our sectors
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Data reports and tools, evaluation reports, learning resources and more
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Herts Insight presents data gathered from many sources in a Hertfordshire view. It helps understand Hertfordshire and its local communities
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Inclusive communication factsheets to support sport and activity providers to be more accesible and inclusive in their communications
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Reaching more people in sport and physical activity through inclusive and accessible communications
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Local area benchmarking tool from the Local Government Association
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Mental health champions toolkit for the sport and physical activity sector
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Large public health data collection, organised into theme profiles
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Explore and download UK grants data published by funders
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Data and Information
The information in this section relates to national & local research, evidence, guidance and strategic documentation. There are also links to raw data sources should you wish to export them and conduct your own analysis. Some examples include the Census 2021 results, national strategies and guidance documents, government department data, and much more. We have sub-divided this section underthe following headings:
Physical Activity and Sport
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A report launched by a cross party group of politicians which sets out clear recommendations to tackle the growing physical inactivity epidemic in the UK
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Working across multiple sports to help fans better understand symptoms and take the first step in seeking an all-important diagnosis if they, or a loved one, may be experiencing signs of dementia
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The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has compiled this report using the latest health statistics to provide a comprehensive overview of levels of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour in adults across the UK
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Insight in womens particatipation in sport
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Guidance from the Chief Medical Officers in the UK on the amount and type of physical activity people should be doing to improve their health(2023)
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Prevention is better than cure
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Government's vision for putting prevention at the heart of the nation's health(2018)
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Sport and Exercise Medicine – A Fresh Approach
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A guide emphasising the importance of SEM in chronic disease management, the prescription of exercise to those patients with co-morbidity, the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal injury and the education and training of allied professionals in these skills(2012)
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Sport recreation alliance is the go to body for inclusive sport and recreation, providing expert services, advice and advocacy
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Second annual report on progress on delivering the aims set out in Sporting Future: A New Strategy for an Active Nation(2018)
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Working together to get the nation moving
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Rising issue of physical inactivity across the UK
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The mission is to create the greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments; reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation(2021-31)
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Positive Impacts of walking in Hertfordshire
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Using the power of play and sport to build belonging for a generation, improving health, fostering inclusion and developing character and leadership
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Health
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Economic Costs to NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups
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Understanding the health burden of physical inactivity (2016)
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Thinking about those things in life which are important to well-being and should be prioritised in day-to-day routines
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Bringing together the sport and recreation sector and support our members to tackle the challenges and take advantage of opportunities - the voice of the sector with Government, policy makers and the media - helping get the nation active at the grassroots by providing advice, support and guidance
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Government’s work on tackling loneliness
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Government's work and announcements on loneliness(2023)
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Focusing on the benefit of physical activity for the prevention and management of long-term conditions in adults
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An approach to improving health and wellbeing in the town. It has been created through collaboration with Hertfordshire County Council, the local NHS and Hertfordshire and West Essex STP
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Hertfordshire Dementia Strategy (2023-2028)
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This strategy sets out the broad priorities for health and care services in Hertfordshire, based on what people affected by dementia and their support networks say is most important to them
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Hertfordshire Health and Wellbeing Board Strategy (2020-26)
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Hertfordshire's health and wellbeing strategy sets clear priorities for health and care services to contribute to achieving better outcomes and reducing health inequalities for people of ages
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Improving people’s health: Applying behavioural and social sciences to improve population health and wellbeing in England(2018)
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Prevention is better than cure
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Government's vision for putting prevention at the heart of the nation's health(2018) |
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Public Health England - Everybody Active, Everyday: Framework for Physical Activity
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An evidence-based approach for national and local action to address the physical inactivity epidemic(2021)
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Public Health England - Evidence Review on Muscle and Bone Strengthening and balance in adults
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The UK Chief medical officer’s guidance that all adults need to undertake strengthening and balance activities suitable for them at least twice per week in order to maintain and improve health(2022)
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Sport and Exercise Medicine – A Fresh Approach
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A guide emphasising the importance of SEM in chronic disease management, the prescription of exercise to those patients with co-morbidity, the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal injury and the education and training of allied professionals in these skills(2012)
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Working together to get the nation moving
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Inequalities
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Cultural identity - Office for National Statistics
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How people in the UK identify in terms of ethnicity, sexual identity, religion and language, and how this has changed over time using a diverse range of data sources
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Deprivation and Poverty Profile County | Hertfordshire | InstantAtlas Reports
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The latest measures of deprivation and poverty in Hertfordshire
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English indices of deprivation 2019 - GOV.UK
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Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England(2019) |
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English Indices of Deprivation 2019 - LSOA Level
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This dataset contains a range of measures which form the Indices of Deprivation 2019 at LSOA level
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Government’s work on tackling loneliness
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Government's work and announcements on loneliness(2023)
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How much money can you save by cycling? | Cycling UK
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An article on how much money can be saved by cycling rather than driving
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Children & Young People
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British Active Students Survey 2019/2020
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Evidence of the valuable role of physical activity can play on students lives
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This guide is part of ‘All Our Health’, a resource that helps health professionals prevent ill health and promote wellbeing as part of their everyday practice(2022)
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Obesity, Healthy eating and Physical activity in primary schools
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Ofsted looks at the actions primary schools are taking to reduce childhood obesity(2018)
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Young People's Health & Wellbeing Survey
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The Young People’s Health & Wellbeing Survey (YPHWS) is a youth health and wellbeing survey which gathers self-reported information annually from those aged 11-19 in Hertfordshire.
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Using the power of play and sport to build belonging for a generation, improving health, fostering inclusion and developing character and leadership
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Other
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UK's leading source of consumer data
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Open Data | Datasets
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Full listing of all the datasets
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Datasets - Office for National Statistics
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The census takes place every 10 years. It gives us a picture of all the people and households in England and Wales.
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Hertfordshire Matters is an analysis that indicates the health and vitality of the county across broad themes and helps to identify significant trends and issues that are affecting our communities
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Joint Strategic Needs (JSN) Assessment
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Hertfordshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
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LGBCE - electoral boundaries review
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A review of the number of councillors, wards and ward names for Stevenage Borough Council
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Further Information
If you have any questions about Insight or need something specific that isn’t shown here, please email our Monitoring Evaluation Learning & Insight (MELI) Lead: o.moore4@herts.ac.uk
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If you have any questions about Insight or need something specific that isn’t shown here, please email our Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, & Insight (MELI) lead: o.moore4@herts.ac.uk
