Strategic Outcomes and Aims

Outcome 1: We encourage and enable the inactive to be more active

Current Context: To achieve our vision of Angus being “a place where an active life is accessible for all’, a key priority is understanding and breaking down barriers to participation for residents that are inactive. Traditionally, 55% of pupils do not engage in extracurricular activity through Active Schools.

In 2019 the Scottish Household Survey showed that nationally 69% of children achieved the recommended level of 60 minutes physical activity per day. 66% of adults were shown to be meeting the recommended level of 150 minutes of moderate activity per week.

In 2021, the top three barriers identified by Angus residents preventing engagement in an active lifestyle were time, work, and accessibility. When asked about potential solutions, residents cited more variety, flexible times and affordable opportunities that would most help them become active.

There are currently a range of inclusive physical activity programmes, including GP referral schemes, Move More and Go Swim, an adult and family beginners swim programme. Improving the awareness of these already established programmes, in addition to new opportunities will enable residents to better understand what is available and how it can be accessed.

All sport and physical activity organisations within Angus should value all individuals, giving equal access and opportunity to all and removing discrimination and other barriers to participation.

Local Outcomes: In Angus we will...

• Through a culture of inclusive planning and practice we will ensure people feel they belong and are welcome, engaged, and connected to sport and physical activity in Angus

• Commit to working with partners to ensure the implementation of the National Physical Activity Pathway and Social Prescribing Approach encourages, enables, and supports local people to regularly engage in activity that is appropriate and important to them

• Collectively work in partnership to commit to implementing Get Out Get Active (GOGA) for the population of Angus to engage in a wide range of activity, targeting inactive individuals, with or without a disability, to be active together

• Commit to understanding our target population groups and the challenges they face, actively striving to gain a better understanding of barriers to physical activity and sport

• Support children and young people that have been most impacted by the pandemic to adopt a more physically active lifestyle.

Potential Solutions: We will strive to...

• Utilise the GOGA initiative with the residents of Angus to engage in a wide range of activity, targeting inactive disabled and non-disabled participants to be active together

• Develop links with social prescribers and work in partnership with Voluntary Action Angus to input physical activity related questions into patient surveys used by social prescribers

• Gather insight from partners that will help identify the inactive moving forward

• Facilitate community engagement to work with inactive groups to ensure sustainable and appropriate interventions

• Use all available data sets to inform future planning

• Work with Family Development Workers in supporting identified families who would benefit from physical activity opportunities, developing appropriate interventions

• Work with School Leaders to identify young people who are vulnerable, inactive and require focussed physical activity interventions

• Work closer with Angus Health and Social Care Partnership to identify areas of greatest need and support the local adult population with targeted activity opportunities, provided through Community Sport Hubs.