Street Audits

There are 2 strands to this work. Community based activity and school work to help promote physical activity opportunities and raise awareness of the benefits of being more physically active for life.

Street Audits

This work will take part in eleven areas of Sheffield chosen in line with obesity levels and in consultation with regeneration teams to prevent duplication of work.

This work will be carried out by Living Streets and takes the form of a practical training session which provides an introduction to Community Street Audits and provides hands on training in conducting audits and developing solutions with partners by taking a community development approach.

Each training host has been asked to identify 10 people from their local community to take part in the initial training. The group will be encouraged to plan and deliver an audit in their community and prepare a report. The audit tool can be reused with other groups and the work continued after the ‘Sheffield–Let’s Change4Life Programme has ended.

Living Streets were chosen and commissioned to carry out this work as they uniquely take a community development approach which ensures any problems identified in an area are identified by local people and not professionals.

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School audit work

The School Travel Team will deliver an intervention package of educational and practical activities within 9 of Sheffield schools. The package includes:

• Curriculum sessions for example, Geography, Science, Design and Technology which will introduce children to the benefits of walking and cycling
• Pedestrian audits. These will include walkabouts around the school area and will involve children and their parents/guardians to gain information about how walking to school can be made easier, safer and more enjoyable
• Presentations at parent evenings and transition meetings and consultation sessions involving children and adults about how walking to school can be made easier, safer and more enjoyable
• Schools will be encouraged to support Walking Buses to enable and encourage children and their parents to walk to school
• Park and Stride. Ensuring parents have the information on areas away from the school where they can park and then walk their child into school safely. An increasing problem around some schools is that car use is making it unsafe for pupils due to congestion around the school entrance.
• Assisting schools to take up and implement competitions and schemes such as Walk Once a Week, Walk to School Week and Walk to School Month
• Cycling/Dr Bike workshops in school to enable students to cycle safely to and from school.

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