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insport NGB Lead Officer's Resource Pack

 

 

Objectives for achieving insport NGB Ribbon Standard

Suggested support for each of the aims can be uploaded on to the insport portal. A Case Officer will have access to the portal to view any support that the NGB has uploaded against the aims for each insport Standard, and will either approve or suggest recommendations in order to achieve the aim. It is the NGB’s responsibility to facilitate the demonstration of each aim.

Aims:

1. Workforce Development

  • Board and NGB senior leadership staff to complete Disability Inclusion Training (UK DIT (NGB) or equivalent)

 

2. Programme Support

  • To identify existing pathways within the sport for disabled people. 
  • Ensure that promotional activities depict sport as an inclusive sport (including images and stories of success for both non-disabled and disabled participants and performers)

 

3. Organisation

  • Establish agreement and in-principle commitment at Board level to work towards an inclusive philosophy of development for the sport.
  • Write a statement of inclusion and communicate it appropriately to members.
  • Communicate to club networks the NGB’s position in their commitment to insport and inclusion.
  • On successful award of Ribbon, to make a commitment to progress to Bronze phase within a mutually agreed time frame

Aims:

1. Workforce Development

1.1 Board and NGB senior leadership staff to complete Disability Inclusion Training (UK DIT (NGB) or equivalent)
 

 

Support:

  • Certification which identifies that Board members and non-technical governing body staff have attended an appropriate disability inclusion training workshop
  • A date confirmed with DSW (or another DIT provider) to deliver a workshop to the Board and nontechnical governing body staff AND a list of names of those individuals who have confirmed their availability to attend.
  • A written commitment from the Chair of the Board and the (Chief) Executive Officer/Director that they will run a disability inclusion training workshop within the next 3 months for Board and non-technical staff.

 
2. Programme Support

2.1 To identify existing pathways within the sport for disabled people.
 


Support:

  • Diagrammatic representation of the player pathway for the sport.
  • Discussion relating to how the player pathway is populated, and how the sport’s infrastructure support engagement throughout the pathway

 

2.2 Ensure that promotional activities depict sport as an inclusive sport (including images and stories of success for both non-disabled and disabled participants and performers).
 


Support:

  • Case Officers will review all electronic and print materials which are circulated or available for promotional purposes.  Links to electronic resources and copies of print materials should be supplied to the Case Officer by the insport NGB Lead Officer.

 
3. Organisation

3.1 Establish agreement and in-principle commitment at Board level to work towards an inclusive philosophy of development for the sport.
 


Support:

  • Case Officer attendance at meetings in which Board representatives identify their support.
  • Written agreement on behalf of Board to build an inclusive philosophy.
  • Case Officer discussions with Board members regarding their commitment to inclusion within the sport.
  • Sight of minutes from Board meetings attesting to Board commitment to inclusion within the sport.

 

3.2 Write a statement of inclusion and communicate it appropriately to members.
 


Support:

  • Written statement of inclusion.  insport NGB Lead Officer should provide the source or refer the Case Officer to the appropriate section of the website.
  • Discussion with the Case Officer surrounding the decision-making process regarding the communication of the statement to members.
  • Case Officer to have sight of statement provided in alternative formats (if applicable).

 

3.3 Communicate to club networks the NGB’s position in their commitment to insport and inclusion.
 


Support:

  • Written commitment to the dissemination of information regarding insport and inclusion to clubs.
  • Verbal, written, or diagrammatic representation of the NGB’s proposed method for communication of insport and inclusion.

 

3.4 On successful award of Ribbon, to make a commitment to progress to Bronze phase within a mutually agreed time frame
 


Support:

  • The mutually agreed time frame must be realistic.
  • This will be demonstrated within the presentation made to the panel but may also be identified in writing by the Chair of the Board, or by the Chief Executive (or equivalent) Officer.

 
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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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