Food & Health Alliance

The review group has been responsible for managing the review process and disseminating the final review outputs. A key strand of the review process was also to engage with a huge number and variety of delivery agencies and also with the wider physical activity workforce e.g. Active Schools co-ordinators and health promotion officers and those who have a more indirect role e.g. teachers and primary health care staff. The purpose of the review’s engagement was to gather and assess views on what has been successful, what have been the key challenges and what are the future priorities.

This report provides a summary of the review’s findings, conclusions and recommendations. However, the review process is not yet complete. Important new data about physical activity trends from the Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) are not available until late 2009. Without this information, the review group believe that statements about progress (e.g. across the population and within key sub groups) are not yet possible. Furthermore, a review of the target cannot be completed at this time. Yet there are many important lessons that we can confidently state now, to strengthen the implementation of the strategy. These recommendations are made with the aspiration of giving the best chance to achieving an ‘active’ Scotland by 2022.