Fifteen councillor statements regarding smokefree park and playgrounds policies were found, all during 2005-2008.
The implementation scores of sports and PA during lunch break, active schoolyards and playgrounds and health education policy were higher (increase > 0.50) in secondary schools than in primary schools.
Changes in the school environmental characteristics: active commuting to school, active schoolyards and playgrounds and health education policy resulted in changes in self-reported extracurricular PA, total PA, pedometer/accelerometer determined step counts and accelerometer determined MVPA.
Secondary schools scored higher on the school environmental characteristics: provision of sports and PA during lunch break, active schoolyards and playgrounds and health education policy but lower on sports and PA after-school than primary schools.
As last, the implementation of three components of the framework developed to promote extracurricular PA were found to be important to predict changes in PA during the transition from primary to secondary school: active commuting to school, active schoolyards and playgrounds and health education policy.
A school questionnaire was developed and used to assess the implementation of the five framework components concerning extracurricular PA promotion on schools: active commuting to school, sports and PA after school, sports and PA during lunch break, active school yards or playgrounds and health education policy.
Furthermore, secondary schools seem more likely to foster in-school strategies (sports and PA during lunch break, active schoolyards and playgrounds and health education policy) than primary schools while primary schools are more likely to foster sports and PA after school than secondary schools.
A former minister has accused the government of indulging in "playground politics" over its welfare policy.
The first episode of the new series, which airs on Saturday on BBC2, sees the junior partner of a coalition government struggling to cling to its big policy idea, Silicone Playgrounds, which has echoes of Michael Gove's plan for children to develop mobile phone apps.
The popular, eye-catching parts of the policy are the new playgrounds, which are badly needed.
And as the playground near Victoria Square reminds you, extreme policies in can lead to extremist politics out.
