Kevin Wray

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Welcome Community Sports Coach Scheme (CSCS) in
Surrey Briefing Meetings
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Agenda

• The Government Investment in Sport
• The Coaching Task Force
• Long Term Athlete Development
• The Community Sports Coach Scheme in Surrey
• Expressing Your Interest
• What Happens Next
• Questions? Please ask as we go along

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Government Investment in Sport

• The Government Plan for Sport (published 2001)
  stated that to achieve the target of at least 75
  of all school children accessing 2 hours a week
  of quality physical education and school sport by
  2006, an additional 459m needed to be invested
  nationally
• 115m to maintain expand the Specialist Sports
  College Programme
• 224m to maintain expand the School Sport
  Co-ordinator Partnerships (including a CPD
  programme for teachers support staff)
• 12m for the Step Into Sport scheme
• 70m for Club Talent Development
• 10m for Sporting Playgrounds
• 28m for Coaching

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Why Invest in Coaching?
Coaching is central to every level of
sport. Coaches motivate, encourage and inspire
others, whether in the school playground, in the
local club or at major international events.
Without them, most performers would fail to reach
their full potential.
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• High quality coaching benefits sport and those
  who take part by
• Increasing participation at all levels
• Encouraging participants to stay physically
  active over a longer period of time
• Helping participants to develop both as
  individuals and as members of a team
• Improving peoples understanding of the
  health-related benefits of sport and physical
  activity
• Fostering a safer environment for participants
  through child protection, risk management and the
  elimination of harassment and
• Achieving higher sporting standards at all
  levels, both nationally and internationally,
  creating a sense of achievement and satisfaction.

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The Coaching Task Force

• The funding announcement had implications beyond
  school sport. The Governments Plan recommended
  that a Coaching Task Force should be established
  to
• (a) decide the future direction of coaching and
  coach education and (b) spend the 28m for
  Coaching.
• It came up with the following recommendations
• Undertake research into the state of coaching
  in the UK
• Introduction of a 5-level National Coaching
  Certificate (NCC)
• Employment of 45 Coach Development Officers
  (CDO)
• Employment of 3,000 paid Community Sports
  Coaches (CSC)

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Community Sports Coach Scheme (CSCS)
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Community Sports Coach Scheme Why is it here?

• The Coaching Task Force (CTF) Final Report (July
  2002) identified a number of issues relating to
  the employment of coaches in England
• Limited opportunities for coaches to develop
  coaching as a career
• Few active professional coaches
• A lack of professional development of coaches.
• At the same time that there is a need for
  greater numbers of high-quality active coaches to
  service demand, the current lack of employment
  opportunities makes it difficult to promote
  coaching as a viable profession.

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Community Sports Coach Scheme National Overall
Objective

• To establish 3,000 paid, qualified coaches
• working at local level to increase the number and
• range of high quality coaching opportunities by
• 2006, according to strategic and local need.

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The Community Sports Coach Scheme

• It will impact in the following areas
• A step change in developing a career structure
  for coaches.
• An increase in the number of qualified coaches
  employed at a local level.
• Quality standards for the recruitment,
  employment, management and development of
  coaches.
• Managed, high quality continuous professional
  development support for employed coaches.
• High quality coaching with a focus on young
  people.

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The Community Sports Coach Scheme

• The funding available through the scheme is
  considered as one element of an overall strategic
  approach to the development of the coaching
  workforce in England, including attracting new
  people into coaching and support for existing
  coaches working in a voluntary capacity.
• The strategic approach considers recruitment,
  employment and deployment, training and
  development, retention and communication, linked
  to the ultimate goal of creating a world-class
  coaching system as outlined in the UK Vision for
  Coaching.
• This should help develop a pool of coaches all
  Fit for Purpose, i.e., ensuring that the right
  coach is available in the right place at the
  right time.

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What is a Community Sports Coach?

• A Community Sports Coach
• Is a qualified NGB coach (to NGB minimum
  guidelines) with relevant experience for the
  coaching role
• Is committed to continuous professional
  development
• Agrees to abide by a code of conduct
• Has been checked by the Criminal Records Bureau

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CSCS Deployment focus

• Employed on a full- or part-time basis by an
  employing body operating to minimum standards,
  CSCs will be deployed with a core focus of work
  across schools, clubs and local authorities to
• Coach young people
• Coach using the concept of LTAD
• Increase the number of young people receiving
  high quality coaching.

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CSCS Deployment focus

• Coach young people, predominantly outside of
  curriculum time, to develop core movement and
  sport skills across a number of sports or with a
  particular focus on one sport
• Coach at a local level with a focus on the
  FUNdamentals / Learning to Train phases (or
  equivalent) development phases of NGB player
  pathways (Long Term Athlete Development - LTAD)
• Retain young people in sport by ensuring a high
  quality, enjoyable, young-person-centred
  experience and providing guidance on progression
  opportunities based on the young persons
  interests and abilities
• NB The 31 NCC sports will be the core focus of
  coaching activity.

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Community Sports Coach Scheme

• Mix of full and part-time coaches
• 452 full-time, 2554 part-time, nationally, by
  2006
• First phase (2003/04) focused on full-time
  coaches only to help develop scheme.
• Second (2004/05) and third (2005/06) phases will
  focus on a mix of full- and part-time coaches.

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Community Sports Coach Scheme

• Who will employ the Coaches?
• As long as the employer meets minimum standards
  in relation to employment, recruitment,
  deployment and development of the Coach(es) and
  that there is a defined need for these Coach(es),
  a range of employing agencies may be identified.

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Phase One Update Employing Agencies
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South-East Surrey Allocations
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Targets for 2004 - 2005
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Phase 1, 2, 3 and beyond.
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Team Coach Concept

Part-time Coach
Part-time Coach
Full-time Coach
Part-time Coach
Part-time Coach
Part-time Coach
Team coach unit providing an effective
mentoring and support network
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Strategic Approach

Community Sports Coach Scheme
Full-time paid coaches
Coaching workforce development strategy
Part-time paid coaches
Volunteer coaches
New recruits into coaching
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CSCS - How will the funding work?

• The Department of Culture, Media Sport (DCMS)
  will match-fund up to 50 of the total funding
  required to employ the coaches for 3 years from
  the commencement of employment.
• For every full-time post (30-40 hrs/wk), they
  will provide a maximum of 12,000 a year.
• For every part-time post (6 hrs/wk), they will
  provide a maximum of 2,000 a year.
• For Surrey, this equates to a maximum total of
  196,000 available every year for the next 3
  years!!

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CSCS - How will the funding work?

• Salary recommendations are on a scale of 18
  26,000 per annum pro-rata.
• Remember that on-costs (to cover national
  insurance, pension, etc) will need to be factored
  in on top of the salary this should be approx.
  17 of the salary. Travel expenses should also
  be included.
• There is a requirement for ongoing training
  (CPD), so funding and/or in-kind support will be
  necessary.
• Furthermore, all costs associated with the
  recruitment, employment and management of the
  coach(es) should also be considered.

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Funding some examples (1)

• Full-time coach to be paid 24,000 per annum
• Can apply for up to 12,000 from DCMS.
• You will need to find approximately 16,700
• 12,000 (to make up the rest of the salary)
• 4,100 (approximate on-costs)
• 500 (example of CPD costs)

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Funding some examples (2)

• Full-time coach to be paid 20,000 per annum
• Can apply for up to 12,000 from DCMS.
• You will need to find approximately 12,200
• 8,000 (to make up the rest of the salary)
• 3,400 (approximate on-costs)
• 800 (example of CPD costs).

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Funding some examples (3)

• Part-time (6 hrs/wk) coach to be paid 11/hr
  (3432 per annum)
• Can apply for up to 2,000 from DCMS.
• You will need to find approximately 2,215
• 1,432 (to make up the rest of the salary)
• 583 (approximate on-costs)
• 200 (example of CPD costs).
• However, if you use a self-employed coach, they
  take responsibility for on-costs (and they pay
  less NI, etc) so you could up their rate to
  almost 13/hr using the same 2,215 partnership
  funding!!

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Match-funding from partners can be from a number
of sources, new /or existing. For example, in
Phase One bids, sources of funding included

• Local Authorities New Deal for Communities
• Sports Clubs Universities
• NGB's School-Club Links
• Lottery RDAs
• Income Community Chest
• Childrens Fund ACDF
• Youth Service NOF Out of Hours
• Sponsorship
• European Year of Education through Sport

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National Coaching Certificate (NCC)
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National Coaching Certificate The NCC will give
coaches a nationally recognised and transferable
professional qualification for the first time.
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National Coaching Certificate Key features

• Based on national standards (National
  Occupational Standards for Coaching, Teaching
  Instruction already exist)
• Five Levels (Depending on its needs, it is
  possible that a sport may choose not to have
  sport-specific qualifications at every level)
• Offering opportunities for vertical and
  horizontal progression (The NCC framework will
  encourage coaches to seek to continually develop)
• NGBs will create a flexible delivery system so
  that coaches with diverse needs can learn
  effectively.

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National Coaching Certificate What is it?

• The NCC will be an endorsement of sport-specific
  qualifications, set against agreed sport-wide
  criteria.
• It will build on good practice that already
  exists within governing bodies coach education
  systems.
• It will create a flexible learning system that is
  open to all.
• NCC-endorsed qualifications will address core and
  sport-specific elements, but each sport-specific
  qualification can be developed and delivered in a
  sport-specific context.

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National Coaching Certificate How is it being
delivered?

• sportscoach UK is leading the development of the
  NCC in partnership with governing bodies and
  other agencies including the CCPR, SkillsActive,
  the home-country sports councils, equity
  organisations and industry experts.
• In England, DCMS is funding the governing bodies.
• 6 sports are trailblazing the process and will
  be ready by 2005/ 2006.
• Another 25 sports will be ready by the end of
  2006.

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National Coaching Certificate The 31 Sports

• Angling Archery Athletics Badminton
  Basketball Bowls Canoeing Cricket Cycling
  Equestrian Football Golf Gymnastics Hockey
  Judo Karate Mountaineering Movement/Dance
  Netball Orienteering Rounders Rowing Rugby
  League Rugby Union Sailing Squash Swimming
  Table Tennis Tennis Triathlon Volleyball

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Research (led by scUK)
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Research
Responding to the widespread acknowledgement that
the evidence base underpinning coaching policy
and delivery is patchy and inconsistent. 3 main
aims To collate for the first time existing
information on the state of coaching in the UK
and identify any gaps /or difficulties in
capturing and collating such information To
establish baseline data against which the impact
of the Coaching project can be judged and To
identify any common themes to inform future
policy development, strategic interventions and
investment.
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Research

• Core data collection
• The numbers, roles, background of qualified
  coaches in the UK
• The experience of paid and unpaid coaches in
  relation to their sense of value and CPD/support
• Why people enter/leave coaching
• How current bodies involved in supporting
  coaching are viewed and what the public perceives
  as important elements of coaching provision
• Attitudes to whether coaches should be licensed
  /or regulated.

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Research
National MORI study due to be published
shortly. Local research will begin in next
couple of months to build a comprehensive picture
of local needs. This will be published in summer
2005 and help drive coach education strategies
for the next few years.
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Coach Development Officers (CDOs)
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Coach Development Officers What are they?

• By April 2005, there will be 45 full-time CDOs
  in place, one per County Sports Partnership
  (CSP).
• They are employed by sportscoach UK but work
  closely with the CSPs.
• They will enhance the existing coaching
  development functions of each of the 45 CSPs.
• They will improve access to high-quality, initial
  and post-qualification coach education and
  development opportunities.

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Coach Development Officers Whats the difference
between coach development and coaching
development?

• Coaching Development
• Overall needs analysis of organisations
  (e.g. finding out numbers of coaches required
  of what standard)
• Training on how to properly employ, recruit,
  deploy coaches (e.g. for schools, local
  authorities, clubs, etc)
• Strategic coach education programmes (e.g. CCDP,
  SYCO, C4T, etc)

• Coach Development
• Supporting coaches in a specific area to improve
  their coaching (e.g. through reflection,
  learning, mentoring, practice, etc)
• Establish and co-ordinate networks of coach
  supporters

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Coach Development Officers What will they
actually do?

• Establish infrastructures and systems to provide
  managed access to qualifications and Continuous
  Professional Development (CPD).
• Support coaches in accessing CPD opportunities by
  establishing local structures to train, support
  and deploy local coach mentors and coach
  developers.
• Establish and co-ordinate a network of providers
  to support organisations with the provision of
  coach education opportunities.
• Work with Community Sports Coaches (CSCs) and
  support their CPD.
• Help ensure coaches are Fit for Purpose.

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Coach Development Officers Which means?

• They will support coaches with identifying
  training, work, etc.
• Then they will identify a sustainable structure
  of other individuals (e.g. mentors) and systems
  around the coach.
• Then move on to work with provide support to as
  many coaches as possible.
• They will return to the first coaches from time
  to time to make sure that the system is still
  working.
• Aim is that coaches will feel able to cope with
  identifying their own needs and building new
  support structures for themselves (if needed)
  over time.

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Coach Development Officers Whats happening in
Surrey?

• Surrey is in second phase
• September/October 2004 - advertising of post
• December 2004 interviews
• March 2005 CDO starts work
• April 2005 Starts work with CSCs