Data project aims to ward off exercise ‘catastrophe’ in kids

The biggest data analysis project of its kind, globally, is to be conducted in primary schools so experts can see what must be done to get young children achieving the exercise levels of previous generations.

The increasingly sedentary nature of children’s lives has been described by experts as a “ potential catastrophe”.

The activity levels of up to 3,000 primary students will be tested over the next three months and their findings used to deliver a programme for schools next September which, it is hoped, will get children exercising in school again.