Disability Sport Wales have this week announced the first 7 local authorities in Wales to sign up to the insport development programme.
Conwy, Wrexham, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Newport, Torfaen and Caerphilly have all committed to helping to develop the framework that all local authorities will follow.
insport are FDSW programmes which intend to support National Governing Bodies of Sport (insport NGB), Local Authorities (insport Development), and clubs (insport Club) to provide inclusive, quality sessions to disabled people within their communities and at a level of their choice or potential. FDSW have designed the insport programmes so that they support the partner in developing inclusive provision, opportunity and practices which will ensure that disabled people gain access to the level of participation/performance they require. The foundations for the programmes are built on the assumptions that if the principles of inclusion are embedded within everyday practices then everyone in the organisation will benefit.
Over the next six months these local authorities will work closely with Disability Sport Wales to design the materials and standards that will pave the way for the rest of the local authorities across Wales. Welsh Athletics and Welsh Rowing have already successfully completed the insport NGB ribbon award, watch this space to see which Local Authority achieves the ribbon insport development award first.
For further details on the insport programme please email Michelle Daltry National Development Manager for the Community Programme.
