United Kingdom Coaching Certificate

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United Kingdom Coaching Certificate
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The history of the UKCC
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Background

• UK Vision for Coaching (1999)
• A Sporting Future for All (2000)
• Governments Plan for Sport
• Published March 2001
• 60 organisations directly involved in
  development
• Key message
• action on coaching a priority

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Coaching Task Force (CTF)

• Established June 2001
• Chair Andy Worthington
• Membership
• Sports Councils
• Governing Bodies
• LAs
• Equity partners
• Sports organisations
• scUK

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Conclusions

• Not enough paid opportunities
• Too much reliance on volunteers
• No proper career structure
• Lack of nationally recognised and/or transferable
  qualifications

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Recommendations

• National Coaching Certificate (NCC)
• NGB National Directors of Coach Education
• NGB Regional Talent Development Coaches
• Coachmatch
• 45 County Coach Development Officers
• Come into Coaching
• Review of sports coach UK

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Core strands identified

• UKCC (previously NCC)
• 45 Coach Development Officers
• 3000 Community Sports Coaches
• Research
• DCMS Spending Review (2002)
• 28 million allocated to coaching
• 3 year investment

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UKCC Sports
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Defining the UKCC
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What is the UKCC?

• an endorsement of sport specific coach
  education programmes against agreed criteria
• Key features
• Principles
• Five levels of coaching
• UK-wide dimension

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Training provision
Quality assurance of training provision
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UKCC principles

• Coach participant centred
• Based on national standards
• Vertical horizontal progression
• Quality assurance
• Flexible
• Centrally co-ordinated
• Stakeholder ownership
• Build on existing good practice

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The UKCC level descriptors
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Stages of consultation

• Three stages
• Endorsement concept
• defining what the UKCC is
• Endorsement criteria
• agreeing what the criteria are
• Competence Knowledge Framework (CKF)
• identifying what skills knowledge are required
  at each level of coaching

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Endorsement criteria

• Two sections
• Training provision
• Quality assurance of training provision
• Four criteria
• Two criteria per section
• Each criterion have sub-criteria

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Section 1Training provision

• Criterion 1
• coaching qualifications that meet the needs of
  coaches within the sport at each appropriate
  level
• Criterion 2
• sufficient resources to effectively underpin
  the successful delivery and assessment of the
  coaching qualifications

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Section 2QA of training provision

• Criterion 3
• an organisation identified as having an
  awarding function with the specific role and
  responsibility of quality-assuring the outcomes
  of the qualification(s) at each level
• Criterion 4
• training providers approved by the awarding
  body to deliver the endorsed programme and
  particular qualifications within the programme

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Qualification development

• UKCC Qualification Guidance
• Levels 1-3
• Minimum requirements for coaching qualifications
• Minimum assessment requirements at each level
• Benchmark statements
• Levels 4 5
• To develop learning programmes

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Where are we now where are we going?
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Current status

• Confirmation of UKCC Qualification Guidance
  (Levels 1-3)
• December 2004
• Confirmation of benchmark statements (Levels 4
  5)
• December 2004
• Confirmation of UKCC Endorsement Criteria
• December 2004

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Ongoing developments

• Endorsement criteria (SkillsActive)
• Endorsement process (SkillsActive)
• Resources services to sports
• Research
• Sustainable funding of programmes
• Home Country issues
• Communications

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So, how will it work?

• A five level framework for coaching
• Coach education programmes endorsed against
  agreed criteria
• Qualifications based on National Occupational
  Standards
• Competence-based qualifications
• Quality assured assessment and delivery are
  integral

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What does the UKCC mean for sport?

• Development of high quality qualifications
  infrastructure
• Fundamental review of current coach education
  programmes, practices and procedures
• Delivery plan development for future coach
  education
• Commitment from sports to deliver

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So, its all about

• Quality coach education programmes practices
• Supporting the development of coaching as a
  profession
• Requiring a commitment to change
• Contributes to the step change necessary to
  achieve the
• UK Vision for Coaching

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The way forward

• Aspects of UKCC endorsed coach education
  programmes implemented during 2006
• Entire coach education programmes endorsed in 20
  sports by end of 2006
• All delivery of coach education in 2007 to be
  UKCC endorsed programmes (across 20 sports)

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Implications of the UKCC
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Implication 1

• Vertical horizontal CPD local programme
  delivery/facilitation?

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Implication 2

• Establishment of systems to provide Coach
  Development Process to targeted coaches within
  each local structure

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Implication 2 (cont)

• Who is involved?
• How many coaches are to be targeted?
• What links between local, regional national NGB
  programmes?
• Support to new entrants to coaching (SSP/CSP)
• Roles of club officers/other coaches?
• Who selects the coaches?

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Implication 3

• Support to clubs to address any gaps in coaching
  provision
• UKCC level descriptors vs coaching needs of
  future
• Local club, school player pathway needs
• How many will carry on?
• How many will not do necessary retraining?
• Recruitment of new coaches
• Who does what?

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The UKCC levels
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Implication 4

• National marketing campaign launch in January
  2005
• National governing body focus
• Regional/CSP focus
• Managing the step-change expectations

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Implication 5

• Transfer from existing NGB qualifications to new
  UKCC endorsed qualifications
• Existing mapped against new
• What are the gaps?
• How are the gaps filled?
• Who will organise deliver these gap fillers?
• Who undertakes the mapping with coaches?