Including People With Disabilities in Outdoor Recreation Kevin ONeill

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Including People With Disabilitiesin Outdoor
RecreationKevin ONeill
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Objectives

• Highlight the position of people with
  disabilities in sport
• Overview of the work of Disability Sports NI
• Introduce DSNIs proposed approach to making
  outdoor recreation more inclusive of people with
  disabilities

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NI Census 2001

• 20 or 1 in 5 of the population in NI
• have some form of disability
• Limiting long term illness

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Participation Levels Adults with Disabilities

• 10 participated on a weekly basis
• 5 occasionally
• 85 never participate
• NISRA Adults with a Disability in Sport Survey
  2007

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Participation Levels EnglandYoung People with
Disabilities (6 16)

• 10 had not undertaken any sport in school
  lessons in the previous 12 months.
• 36 had not undertaken any sport frequently (at
  least 10 times in last year)
• 12 were members of sports clubs compared to 46
  of non-disabled kids
• SPORT ENGLAND SURVEY 2000 YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A
  DISABILITY AND SPORT

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Participation Levels Summary

• As a Group people with disabilities experience
  lowest participation levels in sport physical
  activity
• DSNI Estimate of Participation Levels in NI
• Regularly Active in Sport 5 to 10
• Some Level of Activity 10 to 20

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CURRENT SITUATION

• Increased public awareness of health benefits.
• Higher profile of Disability Sport in the media.
• - Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, Special
  Olympics
• - Role Models
• Increased awareness of the rights of people with
  disabilities (DDA 1995)
• ?
• Increased demand from people with disabilities to
  participate in sport and physical activity.

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Current Situation Summary

• 20 of population have a disability
• Participation levels extremely low 5 to 10
• Lack of organised opportunities at all levels of
  sport and in every of NI
• Growing Demand from people with disabilities to
  participate
• Need for sports leisure providers to be more
  inclusive of people with disabilities
• Need for better designed sports facilities

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Disability Sports NI

• Unified organisation launched in 1998
• Pan disability approach providing for people with
  physical sensory and learning disabilities.
• 6 staff
• 96 Member Groups
• 23 sports clubs organisations
• 35 Special Schools
• 38 Adult Centres Residential Homes

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Member Groups

• Belfast Lough Sailability
• Causeway Wheelers
• Craigavon Water Sports Centre
• Disabled Ramblers NI
• DAA NI
• Irish Disabled Fly Fishing Association
• IFA (Disability section)
• Kilmore Archery Club
• Knights Wheelchair Basketball Club
• Lisburn Pan Disability Badminton Club
• Meteor Water Ski Club

• Newry Mourne Sportsability
• Newry Mourne Watch Club
• NI Spinal Injuries Sports Association
• Northern Flights
• NI Blind Golf
• Riding for Disabled Assoc.
• RNIB Sports section
• Ski Ability NI
• Spokes in Motion Wheelchair Tennis Club
• Ulster Deaf Sports Council
• Ulster Gliding Club
• Wheelchair Bowls NI

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Current Provision

• COMPETITION PERFORMANCE
• COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
• TRAINING COACH EDUCATION
• INFORMATION
• POLICY DEVELOPMENT

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Summary of Current Activities

• 29 Participation initiatives events involving
  2,174 participants
• Disability Performance Pathways developed in
  six focus sports approx 250 participants
• 7 SNI lottery funded talented athletes
• Beijing Paralympics 8 athletes from NI/ 3
  medalists
• 30 training courses/500 participants annually
• 5 Star Challenge Education Project 4,500
  children
• Information Advice provided to 1,960
  individuals and groups
• Local participation initiative in Fermanagh

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Current Provision in Outdoor Recreation

• Some Provision in
• Gliding
• Archery
• Sailing
• Water sports
• Canoeing
• Riding (RDA)
• Orienteering

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Future Priorities 2009 - 2013

• Number of focus sports increased to ten
• Number of lottery funded athletes increased (17)
• Training coach education programmes further
  developed
• Extend local participation programmes
• Network of Inclusive Community Coaches deployed
• 2nd Inclusive Sports Leisure Project in
  Craigavon
• Impairment specific programmes developed
• New Facility Kite marking Scheme new Access
  Officer
• Access to outdoor recreation action plan

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DSNI Development Plan 2009-2013

• 1.6 Outdoor Recreation To work in partnership
  with CAAN, Sport NI and Tollymore Mountain Centre
  to make Outdoor activities more inclusive of
  people with disabilities.

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Actions

• Longer Term
• Need to develop Action plan in partnership with
  SNI CAAN
• Short Term
• Development of fully inclusive facilities at
  Tollymore Mountain Centre.
• Disability specific outdoor recreation training
• Support CAAN Better, Better, Better project
• Pilot participation initiative

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Pilot Participation Initiative

• Small scale participation initiative
• Two Outdoor Sports
• Canoeing?
• Orienteering?
• Two District Councils
• Partnership approach to gain practical experience
  of barriers solutions.

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Thank you