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David Reader – Special Advisor, Workforce

Topics being covered

↓London Sport ↓Hypothesis ↓2017 Research ↓Thought process ↓Choosing social prescribing programmes ↓Recruiting a training partner ↓The training ↓The learnings ↓Future activity

Lo London Sp Sport

• Active Partnership for London
• Vision: To help make London the most physically active city in the

world

• Tackling inactivity
• Workforce Development: Creating a Better and Broader workforce

2017 Research

Londoners

• People have busy lives
• People want to be more active
• Inactive people lack confidence to

be more active

Traditional workforce

• Meeting the needs of Londoners

that it engages regularly

• Less confident and motivated to

work with inactive people

• Are unlikely to encounter inactive

people

Th Thought process

Who are the inactive population? What workforce comes into contact with them? E.g. Social Prescribing workforce Can we help that workforce?

Hypothesis

What is being tested?

ꓫ Do they go? ? Do they go on to prescribe SPA? ꓫ Do they stick with it?  Can we upskill and increase the confidence of those working in social prescribing? ꓫ Does it improve their health and wellbeing?

Selecting Social Prescribing programmes

• General expression of interest

issued

• They had to match our aspirations:
• Increasing skills and confidence
• See Sport and physical activity playing

a role

• Understanding of the pilot phase
• 3 selected
• Kensington & Chelsea – all paid

staff/50+/part of NHS

• Islington – Age UK/about 15

staff/some volunteers

• Bexley – Voluntary Service Council/2

paid staff/40 volunteers

Recruiting a tr training partner

• Could we do it ourselves?
• Expression of Interest
• Competitive process
• Kent University chosen
• Worked with the three

programmes to design the training

• Delivered all the training
• Separate M&E

The tr training

• One whole day
• Half day follow up
• Free – paid for by London Sport

(from Sport England)

• 60 attendees
• At the venue of their choice

Th The content

• Module 1: Introduction to physical activity
• Module 2: Integrating physical activity advice in to social prescribing
• Module 3: How to increase levels of physical activity
• Module 4: Brief introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Module 5: Maintaining changes in behaviour
• Module 6: Sharing knowledge on local opportunities

Le Learnings to-date?

• Can we increase the skills and confidence of a non-sporting workforce

around SPA?

• Final report due now.
• Well received.
• Attendance reliant on management.
• The venue/logistics
• A varied landscape between SP programmes – one size does not fit all
• Funding/staffing/deployment/organisation/motivation/skills set – MI/etc
• SPA -One of many competing interests!
• Partnership approach to deliver

Future activity

• Roll it out across London
• Refine the training
• Train some tutors
• Findings dissemination event –

23rd July in London

• Utilise the training with other

sectors?

Questions?

david.reader@londonsport.org 07572 0944425