insport Partnerships Lead Officer's Resource Pack

 


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Objectives for achieving insport Partnerships Silver Standard


Aims:

1. Workforce Development

  • To continue to provide needs-led Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) which supports in establishing and maintaining knowledge and practice regarding disability and inclusion.
  • Identify a roll out plan for DIT, relevant to need

  • To develop resources, policy and procedure, and promote best practice in regard to protection of adults at risk, in addition to safeguarding and protecting children

 

2. Programme Support

  • Engage with key stakeholders, consolidate inclusive provision, promoting participation and competitive opportunities.

  • Ensure that events and volunteer management systems are inclusive and promoted to disabled people

  • All marketing materials and resources can be sourced in accessible formats.​​​​​

 

3. Organisation

  • Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to the growth of disability sport/inclusive provision within core planning documents, using appropriate key performance indicators.

  • Actively engage with non-users. 

  • Champion the philosophy and key messages of inclusion and the insport project to your identified wider network of stakeholders.

  • Accountability for decision making, and challenge reflects disabled people.

  • Commitment to achieve insport Gold Standard.

 


Aims:

Workforce Development  
Aims Suggested support

To continue to provide needs-led Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) which supports in establishing and maintaining knowledge and practice regarding disability and inclusion.

  • Written or diagrammatic review of highlighted staff training records, identifying (CPL) opportunities available

  • Results of the consultation with key staff and colleagues

  •  Annotated reflections and comments relating to the organisations view of need linked to training

  • Minutes identifying the development of inclusive (CPL) opportunities

  • Documented discussion around how these (CPL) opportunities are shared with all technical staff

  • Copy of training programme and associated training registers

  • Identification of the process for communicating this strategy to all member organisations, clubs, coaches and volunteers.

  • Clear evidence of how the strategy is being communicated (publications, availability on website, etc)

Identify a roll out plan for DIT, relevant to need
  • Members of the tutor workforce attend relevant tutor training workshops.

  • Tutors trained to deliver UK DIT (or equivalent) are highlighted within the tutor workforce.

To develop resources, policy and procedure, and promote best practice in regard to protection of adults at risk, in addition to safeguarding and protecting children
  • Adults at Risk policy and procedures
  • Promotion of a policy development (or review) matrix which references Adults at Risk as policy for the future
  • Documented discussion at Board/SLT or core staff level regarding findings of the review of Welfare Policies, and proposed actions OR proposal to Board for review of welfare policy with a specific regard to Adults at Risk
  • Reference to policy provided to a partner organisation
  • Associated additional training opportunities provided for staff in order to promote best practice in regard to the protection of adults at risk
  • (Links to) Training provision for members, customers or partners regarding Adult at Risk and their Welfare and Safeguarding
Programme Support  
Aims Suggested support

Conduct an audit of community and regional sporting facilities to better understand how to target capital investment over the government term, to provide the best possible support to grassroots and community sport.

  • Diagrammatic representation of the player pathway for the type of active recreation or physical activity (including sport). 

  • Documented discussion relating to how the pathway is populated, and how the active recreation/physical activity (including sport) structure supports engagement throughout the pathway of disabled people.  This might be documented in staff meeting notes, or notes recorded by the Case Officer. 

  • Documented discussion with partners around how these pathways link into others outside of the specific organisation. 

  • Structured inclusive competition examples  

  • Evidence of pathway planning referencing contribution towards the ‘sporting landscape’ (Four Worlds Model) 

Ensure that events and volunteer management systems are inclusive and promoted to disabled people 
  • Copies of inclusive marketing of events or volunteer roles 

  • Case study demonstrating the success of inclusive opportunities  

  • Inclusive volunteer management system  

  • Volunteer or event (individual or club) sign up forms that reference impairment 

  • Data collection tools referencing impairment 

All marketing materials and resources can be sourced in accessible formats. 
  • Website includes examples of inclusive content that are easily found, with clear logical pathways of where further information can be obtained if applicable. 

  • Case Officers will review all display 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 Lead Officer, or someone else within the organisation. 

  • Images of inclusive marketing display materials used to promote inclusive provision, including both electronic and non-electronic materials. 

  • Marketing display materials demonstrating a consistent message around inclusive delivery. 

Organisation  
Aims Suggested support
Demonstrate an evidence-based approach to the growth of disability sport/inclusive provision within core planning documents, using appropriate key performance indicators 
  • Membership (individual or club) joining forms that reference impairment 

  • Examples of other data collection episodes in which diversity questions have been included 

  • Qualitative or quantitative consultations with membership, or potential membership (interviews, focus groups, surveys, competition entry audits etc) 

  • Planning documents that reference data collection and use 

  • Minutes of planning meetings showing direction of growth and the influence on that growth of inclusive data 

  • Case study demonstrating the development of new opportunities as a result of effective data collection 

  • Documented discussion by the organisation on the interpretation and use of the evidence produced by key performance indicators 

Actively engage with non-users. 
  • Data collection of current engagement 

  • Examples of data and statistics relevant to the organisation or area, mapped against current engagement levels. 

  • Consultation with user groups 

  • Details of interactions with non-users or stakeholders that support non-users 

Champion the philosophy and key messages of inclusion and the insport project to your identified wider network of stakeholders 
  • Written statement of inclusion that is shared with the wider network 

  • Recorded discussion with the Case Officer surrounding the decision-making process regarding the communication of the statement to partners and stakeholders 

  • Details of inclusive events and opportunities that have been forwarded to Stakeholders 

  • Stakeholders newsletter that highlights inclusive developments is shared  

  • Promote insport as a wider programme (Development, NGB, Club) and inclusive partner organisations that are also working towards insport standards eg insport club awards 

  • Regular updates to be forwarded to stakeholders to keep them informed of activities, schemes of work and updates to all relevant documents etc 

Accountability for decision making, and challenge reflects disabled people. 
  • Consultation documentation and outcomes 

  • Equality impact assessments 

  • Evidence of challenge along with disability and impairment knowledge and data. 

Commitment to achieve insport Gold Standard 
  • This will be demonstrated within the presentation made to panel but may also be identified in writing by the Chair of the Board, or by the Chief Executive (or equivalent) Officer. 

  • A letter or equivalent from each of the key partners and/or key stakeholders supporting the organisation as they work towards the delivery of their insport goals, identifying the inclusive nature of their working and challenge. 

 



 

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