The Government will set out future ambitions to promote physical activity and sport in the Sport Strategy, which will be published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in summer 2022. This may include opportunities such as promoting walking 10,000 steps per day and other initiatives. The Strategy will enable improvements in equity of access to and participation in physical activity and sport to improve health and reduce disparities. This will include workplace and active travel initiatives.

The Department of Health and Social Care’s Better Health social marketing campaign will continue to provide digital resources, including those linked to walking/running particular distances such as ‘Couch to 5K’ and ‘Active 10’ and signpost adults to local opportunities.

In March 2020, the former Public Health England assessed the health benefits of schools’ active mile initiatives, which included the Daily Mile. The review indicated that the initiatives provide a simple, inclusive physical activity opportunity suitable for all school age children and are appealing as a means of providing regular physical activity. It can make a contribution to the in-school delivery of 30 Active Minutes and the Chief Medical Officers’ recommendation of an average of at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day and can contribute to children’s health and wellbeing if implemented as part of a whole school approach to physical activity. These activities should provide an additional opportunity to be active during the school day and are not equivalent to and should not replace physical education.