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Views ofSports Development Officers

Forum Work Stations7th April 2005

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Work Stations

• Big ticket items • Opportunities• Areas for improvement• Focus on you• Local sports networks

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• Produce a sport and physical activity strategy– Realistic, deliverable, framework for local plans, change needed, attract new

• Consultation– Wider partners, bring in those on periphery– Integrate: sport, education, community (structure for including social inclusion projects etc.)– Countywide and local partnerships

• Know the what, how, where, when and who – Share good practice and lessons learnt

• Establish baseline data– Each LA & NGB: co-ordinated and standardised for collecting, analysing & updating

• Better promotion of Cumbria Sports Partnership– Marketing and communication, tools for all partners (e.g. newsletter)

• Cross sports working– Multi sports and multi skill clubs, – Facilities, officers, PDMs, CSCs, NGBs,

• Centralised resources– Funding, officers, information, education and training

Let’s get our act together (sports focus) first before significant expansion

Big Ticket ItemsSports Development Forum

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• Communication*****• Tangible improvements to things e.g.

– More participation, improved delivery, better facilities• Evidence and research

– Baseline, impact, improvement• Strategy and structure

– Vision, systems, simplicity, streamline• Partnership working

– Wider, more commitment, more ownership• Resources

– More and better use of people, funding, facilities

Areas for ImprovementSports Development Forum

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OpportunitiesSports Development Forum

The Cumbria Cyclops

One vision

One body

Many arms

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• Sport is higher on other agendas • One vision – one strategy• Revised/modified structure - fit for purpose • Chance to evaluate and prioritise• More and better partnership working• Community sports coaches• Countywide support• CPD • LTAD• Facilities/facilities audit• Schools• Quality processes • Funding• Local delivery plans and budgets• Clarify roles

OpportunitiesSports Development Forum

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• More Resources– Funding (county magnet fund/funding officers), people (coaches, volunteers)

• Management support, training and continuous professional development– Managing time, budgets, people, developing self

• Better and more strategic facilities/centres– Multi sport, needs audit– Sports colleges/NGB performance centres

• Centralised support– Shared vision / one strategy– Cumbria Sports officers working in the LAs – On-line databases (Clubs, coaches, SDOs,,Contacts)– Baselines information gathering and evaluation (clubs, coaches, facilities)– Specific targets / KPIs– Central budget holding– Employment, hosting of staff/officers

• Communication/Information– Mapped networks (simple/streamline structure)

• Commitment / local ownership

What would help you most?Sports Development Forum

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Local Sports Networks/Alliances

County co-ordination

role

Education Sector

Sports Sector

Community Sector

Local Sports Local Sports Networks/ Networks/ Alliance/ Alliance/ CouncilCouncil

County Sports PartnershipCounty Sports Partnership

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Local Sports Networks/Alliances

Positives• Local needs lead• Local contacts • Local knowledge• Local planning• Closer to end users• Structure for bringing

people together• Two way influence &

communication• Sharing of resources• Securing resources• More devolved• More ownership• More inclusive• Understanding of roles• One size doesn’t fit all

– Clarity– Coordination– Commitment

Sports Development Forum

Areas to Explore• Regional/county/

district/local fit• NGB fit• Devise a model

/framework for building • Tool kit for starting• Communication• Build on existing forums• Explore existing

practice - good & bad• Reach those on the

periphery• Address over

commitment /capacity and under resourced issues

• Role of CSP• What should be the

common core?

Concerns• More than LAs• Not seeing the ‘big

picture’• Doing own thing• Local agenda/insular• Duplication• Potentially

– Inefficient– Ineffective– Too many layers– Fire fighting

• Silo working/UDI • Disparate• Delivery

– Capacity – Commitment– Quality

• Managing expectations• NGB fit