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Every Child's Future Matters - Sustainable Development Commission

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Further resources<br />

Be active, be healthy: a plan for getting the<br />

nation moving (2009). Otherwise known as the<br />

physical activity plan, this DH document sets<br />

out new ideas for local authorities and PCT’s on<br />

providing and encouraging more physical activity<br />

including improvements to local infrastructure to<br />

encourage walking and cycling. The plan publishes<br />

the NHS costs of physical inactivity for every PCT<br />

in England, averaging £5 million per PCT every<br />

year – almost 1000 hip replacements per PCT.<br />

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/<br />

Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/<br />

DH_094358<br />

Bike It providing details on Links to Schools and<br />

Safe Routes to Schools projects: www.sustrans.org.<br />

uk/default.asp?sID=1102425335218<br />

BTCV’s Green Gyms programme: www2.btcv.org.<br />

uk/display/greengym<br />

Building Health: Creating and enhancing<br />

places for healthy, active lives: What needs<br />

to be done? is a collection of papers by leading<br />

experts and campaigners which examine how<br />

the design of towns, cities and buildings might<br />

encourage physical activity. Building Health covers<br />

issues ranging from strategic and urban planning,<br />

to walking and cycling, to urban green space and<br />

building design published by the National Health<br />

Foundation in partnership with CABE and Living<br />

Streets. www.heartforum.org.uk/Publications_<br />

NHFreports_Pub_BuildHealth.aspx<br />

Children’s Environmental Health Strategy for<br />

the United Kingdom (2009). It offers a range<br />

of recommendations to improve the health<br />

and wellbeing of children by changing their<br />

environment. www.hpa.org.uk/cehape/<br />

DCSF’s Children’s Trusts: Statutory guidance on<br />

inter-agency cooperation to improve wellbeing<br />

of children, young people and their families<br />

(2008). Outlines the responsibilities of Children’s<br />

Trusts to ensure that the local needs of children,<br />

young people and their families are reflected in<br />

local priorities. It advocates that Children’s Trust<br />

partners champion child safety in the wider Local<br />

Strategic Partnership, including wider issues such<br />

as, preventing accidents, traffic calming measures,<br />

access to quality green spaces and providing<br />

sufficient opportunities for safe outdoor play and<br />

safe places for teenagers to meet.<br />

www.publications.dcsf.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFu<br />

nction=productdetails&PageMode=publications&Pro<br />

ductId=DCSF-00943-2008&<br />

DCSF’s <strong>Every</strong> Child <strong>Matters</strong> Outcome Framework<br />

www.publications.everychildmatters.gov.uk/<br />

default.aspx?PageFunction=productdetails&PageMo<br />

de=publications&ProductId=DCSF-00331-2008<br />

DCSF’s Guidance on Children and Young People’s<br />

Plans (2009). www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/<br />

strategy/planningandcommissioning/cypp/<br />

DCSF’s <strong>Sustainable</strong> Schools:<br />

www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/<br />

DCSF’s Brighter <strong>Future</strong>s – Greener Lives:<br />

<strong>Sustainable</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Action Plan: 2008-2010.<br />

www.dcsf.gov.uk/aboutus/sd/docs/<br />

<strong>Sustainable</strong>DevActionPlan_2008.pdf<br />

Defra’s DIY guide – advice for Practitioners is<br />

designed to support implementation of the Public<br />

Sector Food Procurement Initiative: www.defra.gov.<br />

uk/farm/policy/sustain/procurement/pdf/diypractitioner-guide.pdf<br />

Design for Play: A guide to creating successful<br />

play spaces (2008). Play England and government<br />

departments leading on play have published this<br />

guidance to transform the design of play spaces<br />

in the future. It shows how to design good play<br />

spaces, which can be affordably maintained, give<br />

children and young people the freedom to play<br />

creatively, and still allow them to experience risk,<br />

challenge and excitement. www.playengland.org.<br />

uk/Page.asp?originx_2757hp_70994779705616h3<br />

0y_2008630728a<br />

<strong>Every</strong> Child <strong>Matters</strong>: www.everychildmatters.gov.uk<br />

Groundwork – building sustainable communities in<br />

areas of need through joint environmental action:<br />

www.groundwork.org.uk<br />

Healthy Lives, Brighter <strong>Future</strong>s: The Strategy<br />

for Children and Young People’s Health (2009).<br />

A joint strategy from DH and DCSF, sets out what<br />

children and their families can expect from child<br />

health services. It includes references to the<br />

‘wider determinants of health, including the<br />

environment’; promotes walking, cycling and play<br />

as well as the benefits of green space for mental

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