{"id":5819,"date":"2023-06-30T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/?page_id=5819"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:25:33","slug":"cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/creating-change\/policy-positions\/cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<p><strong>The cost-of-living crisis is likely to worsen inequalities, with women in under-served communities bearing the brunt of its impacts.\u00a0 It is vital that it does not set back progress made with women and girls\u2019 sport in the way the pandemic did.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Government needs to act now to protect the leisure facilities women depend on so heavily, embed equal access to sport and exercise as a core element of its levelling up agenda including through improving school sport and P.E.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cost of living is rising and rising fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real terms wage cuts. Soaring energy bills. Inflation over 9%. These are just some of the issues we are all having to contend with as the cost-of-living crisis escalates. One in five adults in Britain are worried that the rising cost-of-living will drag them into debt they simply will not be able to pay back<a href=\"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/news\/implications-for-women-and-girls-sport-from-the-cost-of-living-crisis\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. As household budgets are squeezed, this winter we could see many people having to choose between eating and heating, let alone whether they can afford to buy their kids trainers or to go to the gym.<\/p>\n<p>London Sport found that 8 in 10 lower-income families are already being less active as a result of financial constraints<a href=\"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/news\/implications-for-women-and-girls-sport-from-the-cost-of-living-crisis\/#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>. 36% of adults across the UK say the cost of living is now affecting their lives, with 27% saying they\u2019d also cut back on physical activity and sport due to escalating costs<a href=\"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/news\/implications-for-women-and-girls-sport-from-the-cost-of-living-crisis\/#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>. \u00a0Sport England\u2019s annual Active Lives Survey identifies that a third of people in lower socio-economic groups are inactive and over half are unlikely to be active to start with<a href=\"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/news\/implications-for-women-and-girls-sport-from-the-cost-of-living-crisis\/#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a>. Within lower socio-economic groups, long term Sport England data shows that women are consistently less active than men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost-of-living crisis is likely to worsen inequalities, with women in under-served communities bearing the brunt of its impacts.\u00a0 It is vital that it does not set back progress made with women and girls\u2019 sport in the way the pandemic did.\u00a0 The Government needs to act now to protect the leisure facilities women depend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1383,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7264,"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5819\/revisions\/7264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyliga.ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}