Our work on the Black Country Compendium was our first of this kind. The Black Country Consortium developed the adult compendium and, through its success, were encouraged to produce three further resources aimed at early years, children and young people and older adults. We were tasked with producing the compendiums aimed at these three additional groups.
The approach pulls together the evidence base and intelligence (including cost effectiveness data) regarding sport and physical activity to support effective commissioning and the delivery of services through a life course approach to determining need and evidence.