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Objectives for achieving insport NGB Silver 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

  • Development of inclusive strands within all levels of Coach Education 
  • Support development training plan for all Coach Educators and Tutor Trainers regarding inclusive practices.
  • To provide DIT courses for staff, including coaches, volunteers, and officials, and work alongside insport Club to include a roll-out programme for DIT to clubs.
  • To advocate Safeguarding Adults training in addition to Safeguarding Protecting Children training across club networks.
  • Develop a plan to support athletes through classification.
  • Working with clubs to achieve inclusion standards (whether sport’s own scheme or insport Club).

 

2. Programme Support

  • To identify an appropriate format for an inclusive Performance Pathway. 
  • To develop participation opportunities, in conjunction with appropriate bodies. 
  • To identify disabled participants’ needs within all aspects of the participant pathway, from  consultation to implementation (within programmes). 

 

3. Organisation

  • Working with clubs to achieve inclusion standards (whether sport’s own accreditation or insport Club).
  • Develop an inclusive communication plan. 
  • Create a Continuous Improvement Plan for developing EDI.   

 

Aims:

1. Workforce Development
1.1  Development of inclusive strands within all levels of Coach Education.


Support

  • Minutes from coach education meetings identifying plans for the incorporation of inclusive content into the resources and delivery.
  • A coach education development plan which is signed off by the Board.
  • Curricula from existing coach education workshops and resources, identifying the inclusive nature of the content.
     
1.2  Support development training plan for all Coach Educators and Tutor Trainers regarding inclusive practices.


Support

  • Evidence that Coach Educators and Tutor Trainers are scheduled to attend or have attended Disability Inclusion Training.
  • Provision of a Coach Educator/ Tutor Trainer CPL calendar which includes DIT.
  • Overview of the Tutor Trainers’ workshop, and identification of where disability sport can be included.
     
1.3  To provide DIT courses for staff, including coaches, volunteers, and officials, and work alongside insport Club to include a roll-out programme for DIT to clubs.


Support

  • Delivery plan for DIT workshops to NGB staff, and Coaches and Volunteers. This should link into DIT plans relating to insport Club.
  • Calendar of CPL including DIT.  This may be an electronic calendar hosted on the website, or a fixed calendar printed each year. Reference to policy provided to a partner organisation.
     
1.4  To advocate for Safeguarding Adults training in addition to Safeguarding and Protecting Children training across club networks.


Support

  • Reference to section of the NGB Welfare Policy which identifies that all club welfare officers & NGB staff should attend Adults at Risk training.
  • Inclusion of Adults at Risk training on CPL calendar. 
  • Statement from Board identifying their commitment to providing Adults at Risk training.
1.5  Develop a plan to support athletes through classification.


Support

  • Certificate of attendance from NGB staff on classifiers workshop.

  • Classification policy/criteria.

  • Meeting minutes with athlete/support organisation/UK Body.

  • Outlined plan.
     
1.6  Working with clubs to achieve inclusion standards (whether sport’s own scheme or insport Club).


Support

  • Website identifies which clubs have inclusive accreditation (the NGBs own accreditation mark, or insport Club accreditation mark, relevant to the Standard they have attained).
  • A document which highlights clubs’ whereabouts, format of delivery and opportunity relevant to impairment groups and what level of insport Club or NGB accreditation they hold.
  • The sport should know which clubs have gained insport Club, or if the NGB have an inclusive club accreditation programme, which clubs have this, where they are, and what their provision looks like.
     
2. Programme Support
2.1 To identify an appropriate format for an inclusive Performance Pathway.


Support

  • Sight of clear opportunities for disabled individuals to engage with the performance pathway (grassroots – elite performance).
  • Minutes of meetings with DSW Performance Pathway Officers at which development of pathway opportunities are discussed.
  • Reference to plans and/or policy where continued development of an inclusive participant pathway is included.
  • Process for the identification and profiling of future athletes is in place.
  • Demonstration of links to a GB pathway (if applicable).
     
2.2 To develop participation opportunities, in conjunction with appropriate bodies. 


Support

  • Participation development plan.
  • Email trails between Development Officers identifying development of participation opportunities within sport.
  • Minutes of meetings with LAs at which development of participation opportunities are discussed.
  • Reference to LAPAs where development of the disability sport is included.
     
2.3  To identify disabled participants’ needs within all aspects of the participant pathway, from consultation to implementation (within programmes).


Support

  • Minutes from meetings with partner bodies and disabled people currently involved with the sport.
  • Surveys of disabled people currently involved and/or current partners.
  • Lived Experience panel meetings or consultation examples.
  • Reference to recommendations made by partner bodies regarding CPL for those working within disability sport.
  • Inclusion of appropriate CPL relating to disability sport on any coaching licence which might exist.
  • Cross reference for CPL with levels of the player pathway.
  • CPL calendar highlighting additional provision.
     
3. Organisation
3.1  Working with clubs to achieve inclusion standards (whether sport’s own accreditation or insport Club).


Support

  • Club scheme is inclusive.
  • Club support sessions.
     
3.2  Develop inclusive communication plan.


Support

  • Online resources which the clubs can download and include in their information packs are inclusive.
  • Provision of documents in alternative formats.
  • Specific documents and information (where appropriate) are available relevant to the disability sport, or disabled people.
  • Examples of club information packs and how the NGB has influenced what is included.
     
3.3  Create a continual improvement plan for developing EDI.


Support

  • Moving to inclusion engagement.
  • M2I diagnostic tool and plan.
  • Alternative format for mapping progress with EDI programmes.
     
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