Creating Active Schools (CAS)

The Creating Active Schools (CAS) Framework was co-developed by 50 stakeholders in July 2019 using the UK Design Council’s Double Diamond approach. Since August 2020, the University of Bradford, Yorkshire Sport Foundation, Bradford Institute for Health Research have co-developed an implementation model to support schools to create organisational and cultural change for physical activity. Using a process of iterative development with partner schools and wider stakeholders, the Creating Active Schools profiling tool has been constructed. The CAS implementation model builds local communities of practice and supports schools to embed evidence-based provision through auditing current provision, action planning and online CPD.

The CAS programme is enabling 400 schools through 18 Active Partnership and local authority partners to create organisational change for physical activity in schools. The implementation model has recently been showcased in the Sport England publication Putting it into Practice; tools to support tackling inactivity through systems change publication.