This event will highlight the importance of physical fitness for the current and future health of children, and for their brain development and educational attainment. It will demonstrate the need for national monitoring of fitness in children and showcase a prototype fitness monitoring system - FitBack Scotland - based on systems used in other European countries. We will share the Finnish experience of school-based fitness monitoring, and the event will then seek views from the audience as to how the prototype can be scaled up to give us the kind of national monitoring system used in many other European countries.