Dance in Health & Wellbeing

Public Health England Webinar: Why dance matters; Reducing inequalities and tackling inactivity 

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS ) Taking Part survey shows over 40% of girls dance outside of school and yet dance is rarely centre stage in the physical activity agenda.

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This webinar aims to:

• Outline the case for dance in reducing gender, age and disability inequalities.

• Summarise the evidence base and research on the health benefits of dance across the life-course.

• Present case studies of dance programmes meeting health and wellbeing outcomes.

• Introduce relevant data and tools demonstrating how these can be used to evidence the contribution of dance to physical activity 

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This webinar is relevant to dance providers, local authority public health practitioners, sports and leisure services, schools, youth services, older peoples services, disability services; local authority social care and children’s services, health partners eg) CCGs and Community service providers.

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The webinar was set up by Public Health England, Yorkshire and Humberside and is delivered by Jan Burkhardt, Strategic Lead for Dance in Health & Wellbeing, One Dance UK and Craig Timpson, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Public Health England. The hour long session was recorded on Monday 25 June, 2018.