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insport NGB Lead Officer's Resource Pack

 

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Objectives for achieving insport NGB Bronze Standard

The Case Officer 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.

The Case Officer should notencourage the club 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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
 


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).
 


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.
 


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.
 


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.
     
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Foreword
Disability Sport Wales' Philosophy of Inclusion
Lead Officer's Role for the NGB
insport NGB Ribbon
  insport NGB Bronze
insport NGB Silver
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