Objectives for achieving insport NGB Bronze Standard

As Case Officer, you must see ‘evidence’ that the aims for each insport Standard have been achieved by the NGB, and then it is the NGB’s responsibility to facilitate the demonstration of each aim.

You should not encourage the NGB to compile a file of evidence, but should arrange meetings with the insport NGB Lead Officer so that they can ‘see’ the support against each of the criteria.

Aims:

1. Workforce Development

Ensure Tutor Trainers (TTs) and Coach Educators (CEs) are up skilled with DIT.
Identify an NGB Disability Inclusion Plan, share this internally and with membership.
To review all coach education courses within the sport to ensure inclusive / disability-specific content is embedded within.
Review NGB role descriptions to ensure they refer to inclusion and equity.

2. Programme Support

Ensure that the website is accessible and representative of disability sport.
To ensure that the participant pathway is inclusive of disabled participants, and represented appropriately.

3. Organisation

The NGB has a specific Disability Inclusion Plan or Strategy, or disability inclusion is embedded within their wider organisational strategy.
Positive engagement with appropriate stakeholders to shape inclusion provision.
Audit of clubs, coaches and competitions for inclusion, integration and impairment-specific opportunity, equipment and facilities.
Annual data collection process includes requests for information on disability and impairment for participants, coaches and officials.
Communicated commitment to the creation of all future documents in accessible format(s).
Map NGB accreditation against insport Club aims and align to insport Club standard as appropriate.
Commitment to achieving insport NGB Silver Standard.

Aims:

1. Workforce Development
1.1 Ensure Tutor Trainers (TTs) and Coach Educators (CEs) are up-skilled with DIT.
Prompts Does the NGB use its own Coach Educators to provide their coaches education/ workshops? Do they include disability inclusion training as part of the CE’s CPD? How often are the CEs asked to refresh their knowledge through training or other CPD? Support Email trail inviting expressions of interest from TTs and CEs to attend a DIT session, and the responses from those TTs. Copies of certificates of attendance at a DIT session from TTs.
1.2 Identify an NGB Disability Inclusion Plan, share this internally and with membership.
Prompts Has the notion of a Disability Inclusion Plan been discussed within the NGB? Is it included as a standard agenda item in team briefings/ meetings? Are messages regarding the development of the DAP communicated to regional and local level staff as well as the National team? Support Identification of a Disability Inclusion Plan template to use locally/regionally. Agenda/minutes for local/regional and team meetings.
1.3 To review all coach education courses within the sport to ensure inclusive/disability-specific content is embedded within.
Prompts Has the NGB thought about all the coach education courses and workshops they endorse, and checked the extent to which they are inclusive? What does inclusive mean to the NGB in terms of workshop content? Support Documented evidence from CO that NGB has begun the review process. Syllabus from existing qualifications if already inclusive. Review documentation highlighting areas where disability inclusion will be added/strengthened. Letter of support from awarding body, sports coach UK, or DSW.
1.4 Review NGB role descriptions to ensure they refer to inclusion and equity.
Prompts Ask for access to all Job Descriptions (JDs) and/or Role Descriptions (RDs) and check for the presence of a reference to inclusion, disability or equity/equality. The reference should be along the lines that it is everyone’s job to ensure that disabled people have the equitable opportunities to be involved with ‘the’ sport, therefore all practice should be inclusive of disabled people, and equality should be a focus for everything on their work programmes. If this is not evident, and at an appropriate point, the NGB (C)EO/D should be encouraged to include such statements on the JD/RD, and on all future JD/RDs developed. Support Sight of Job or Role Descriptions which incorporate an appropriate reference to the inclusion of disabled people or equitable provision.

2. Programme Support
2.1 Ensure that the website is accessible and representative of disability sport.
Prompts This aim is intended to continue to extend your communication with disabled communities about your offer. The two biggest challenges for organisations are that their websites are often not accessible, or that the information is not reflective of the individuals the organisation is trying to target. This is an extension of the aim around marketing at Ribbon standard, and within the support associated against this aim there should be clear attempts made to address some of the challenges. Is there an obvious area on the website for disability sport? OR (even better) is disability sport included within all the sections of the website? Are there links through to other organisations who provide/are responsible for disability sport (e.g. DSW)? You do not have to have a AAA rated website as this can be costly and unrealistic (for some organisations) but think innovatively and creatively about what CAN be done to enable as many people as possible to engage with your content and translate into your services. Refer to W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines for further information and prompts – ideally the NGB should be looking to work towards AA (Double-A) compliance. Are there images of disabled people/athletes on the website? Support Screenshots of areas of your website where you have representations of diversity and inclusion; or where the offer to disabled people is clearly communicated. Links to documents which provide guidance to disabled people, or partners, about opportunities associated with your organisation – whether in terms of employment or participation. CO able to easily navigate around the NGB website and find whatever they need from a disability sport perspective. CO identifies a written statement attesting to that. Acknowledgement from CO that website is AA compliant.
2.2 To ensure that the participant pathway is inclusive of disabled participants, and represented appropriately.
Prompts What competitive opportunities exist for children and young people with an impairment? (Could existing school or club competitions be adapted to include participants with an impairment?). What is the involvement of the NGB or DSW performance pathway teams in the pathway structure? Is the Sport Wales Performance Advisor aware of the NGB working towards insport? Is the Performance Mapping document reviewed and maintained? Do core NGB staff have a level of knowledge and understanding around profiling and pathway within ‘para’ sport? (including classification). Is the NGB aware of the current standing of their sport within a global ‘Para’ setting? Case Officer to contact DSW regarding performance pathway links. Support Sight of the NGB participant pathway, and that disability sport opportunities and opportunities for disabled people are clearly included. Completed/Updated Performance Mapping document (Inclusion Spectrum), include RAG code for identified areas of development and/or priority areas. Case study highlighting examples of individuals progressing along the participant pathway. Minutes of meetings with NGB Officers and DSW Performance Pathway Officers at which development of pathway opportunities are discussed. Review of competition structures, highlighting inclusive or specific opportunities. Copy of inclusive competition resources (e.g. entry forms and marketing materials include references of the inclusive opportunities). Evidence engagement via Para Sport group.

3. Organisation
3.1 The NGB has a specific Disability Inclusion Plan or Strategy, or disability inclusion is embedded within their wider organisational strategy.
Prompts How much consideration does the NGB give to disabled people and the disability version of their sport in the planning? When compiling their NGB Partnership information with Sport Wales, do they include opportunities, participation levels, and demographic information which relates to disabled people? How do disabled people and inclusive programmes feature within strategic documents? What was the rationale for their approach on specific or wider strategy when considering disability inclusion? Support Excerpts of your planning documents where inclusion of disabled people is reflected. Entire planning document(s) with relevant areas highlighted. Copy of inclusive organisational strategy. Copy of disability inclusion strategy or plan.
3.2 Positive engagement with appropriate stakeholders to shape inclusion provision.
Prompts Who are going to be the most appropriate people to involve in this steering group? Do you have any contacts who might be useful to the NGB? Part of your role around including disabled people within your area of the sector is the advocacy to others of inclusive practices and approaches. This can be formally acknowledged, and the value of such practice communicated through the service level agreements, or any delivery contracts which might be created. Examples may include grant offer letters, delivery contracts, work with partner sport development teams, work with partner NGBs, other key agencies, etc. You might include something straightforward which identifies your expectation regarding values and behaviours associated with inclusion, or it may be something more formal linked to policy. Support Terms of reference for steering group. Identification of group membership. CO attendance at a stakeholder meeting. Evidence of stakeholder engagement. Stakeholder mapping.
3.3 Audit of clubs, coaches and competitions for inclusion, integration and impairment-specific opportunity, equipment and facilities.
Prompts Does the NGB currently complete a club audit? Does the NGB currently hold detailed information regarding the demographics, development and type of coaching their coaches are involved with? Is the NGB aware of all the competitions held across Wales, and are they currently audited? Support Documented discussion between CO and NGB regarding inclusive provision, delivery and opportunities. Written audit of clubs, coaches and competitions. Documented discussion between NGB staff highlighting inclusive provision, delivery and opportunity.
3.4 Annual data collection process includes requests for information on disability/impairment for participants, coaches and officials.
Prompts What information does the NGB currently collect regarding disability membership? How does this data support the NGB to deliver and develop programmes? Can additional questions be included in any existing mechanisms for data capture? Support Copy of data collection or insight related to membership or participation figures. Snapshot of membership systems with relevant questions.
3.5 Communicated commitment to the creation of all future documents in accessible format(s).
Prompts What range of documents does the NGB currently create, and how are they currently communicated and shared? What does accessible format mean to the NGB? Has the NGB got any information which might identify to them whether they need to have information readily available in a specific form of accessible format? Is the NGB aware of the different ways in which they could ensure that all their information is created in accessible format? What level of commitment will the NGB give to creating documents in accessible formats in the future? Support Documented commitment to creating future documents in accessible format. Reference to accessible documents. Copy of inclusive marketing and communication policy. Plan of priorities for future provision of accessible documents.
3.6 Map NGB accreditation against insport Club aims and align to insport Club standard as appropriate.
Prompts Working with both the insport Club criteria over all 4 standards, and the NGB’s Club Accreditation criteria, map where there is replication. Check what elements of insport Club are replicated within the NGB’s Club Accreditation criteria already and therefore make a recommendation to DSW about what (if any) standard of insport Club can be awarded to a club when it attains its NGB Club Accreditation. Cross-reference what elements of insport Club appear on the NGB’s Club Accreditation and then make recommendations to the NGB about what they could include to ensure that their criteria is inclusive of disabled people. Support Mapping exercise conducted by the NGB and DSW. Documented commitment of the NGB delivering insport Club or equivalent inclusive club accreditation.
3.7 Commitment to achieving insport NGB Silver Standard.
Prompts This is just the ongoing commitment from the NGB including the Board to continue to Silver Standard. Support Written commitment from the NGB to progress to Silver Standard. Verbal commitment from the (C)EO/D within the Bronze presentation to continuing to Silver Standard.