Youth Sport Trust Knowledge Bank

The Knowledge Bank contains key statistics and evidence about young people and physical activity, play and sport. It is updated on a regular basis to make sure it contains the latest information.

If you’d like to see more detail and access the full database, select the 'get started' button. The Knowledge Bank can be filtered and searched to help you find the statistics or evidence you are looking for. It includes key topics such as young people's physical, mental and social wellbeing and well as statistics around education and society.

The Youth Sport Trust invest considerable time and resource in collating and updating the information within the database, which is available for your use. However, we would kindly ask that whenever you use any information from within the database you acknowledge that the information has been sourced from the our Knowledge Bank.

If you scroll down further, you will find our Key Factsheets which summarise key statistics on key topics. We are regularly updating these and adding new topics. If there are any topics you would like to see, please get in touch.

For any questions or feedback please contact [email protected].

The Knowledge Bank has become a crucial part of my planning process. The fact that everything is easily accessible and is personalised to the schools/pupils I want to look at is complete game changer.

Strategic Lead for PE & School Sport

Did you know?

1 in 4

children don't feel that they belong at school

47%

of children and young people in the UK meet the Chief Medical Officer guidelines of recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day

18%

of children aged 7 to 17 have a probable mental health disorder

I frequently suggest your Knowledge Bank to my teaching friends, and I've seen them use that information in meetings to advocate for school curriculum changes or budget increases. It truly has an impact. In an era where physical education is sometimes neglected in schools, your data helps keep it in focus.

Marketing Executive

The Schools Database contains data about schools and the make-up of the pupils that attend these schools. It gathers information together from the School Census and IMD index to provide detail at a school level.

If you’d like to see more detail and access the full database, select the 'get started' button on the right-hand side.

The Schools Database can be filtered and searched to help you find the schools in your area.
It includes key data including location details of the school, the number of pupils attending as well as percentages of pupils with certain characteristics.
It will be updated regularly with the latest releases of the datasets mentioned.

The Knowledge Bank contains key statistics and evidence about young people and physical activity, play and sport. It is updated on a regular basis to make sure it contains the latest information.

Did you know?

Key Factsheets

School-related benefits of sport and physical activity

Cost of living

Girls' participation

Physical health benefits of sport and physical activity

Mental health benefits of sport and physical activity

Challenges young people face

Absenteeism in school (key issues)

Absenteeism in school (the role of sport and physical activity)

The role of breakfast clubs and before/after school sport and physical activity

Early Childhood

The Schools Database contains data about schools and the make-up of the pupils that attend these schools. It gathers information together from the School Census and IMD index to provide detail at a school level.