School summer holidays are creating a class divide between the fitness levels of deprived children and their more affluent peers thanks to a lack of affordable physical activity offerings, research from ukactive has revealed.

Lazy summer holidays are leading to a significant drop-off in schoolchildren’s fitness levels and hampering efforts to reverse the UK’s physical inactivity epidemic, new research suggests.

A group of North London schools could be among the first in the country to take part in a new fitness measurement pilot which aims to help tackle the nation's youth inactivity crisis.

Sports coaching company, Premier Sport, has revealed plans for a new physical activity programme aimed at giving more young people the chance to be active and stay active.

CEO David Stalker reports on a recent focus group examining children's activity and school sport