CSCS in Surrey

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CSCS in Surrey

• Whats happened in Surrey
• Whats happening in Surrey

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CSCS in Surrey

• Working Group has been set up comprising
  representatives covering
• Local Authorities
• National Governing Bodies
• Disability
• Funding
• Surrey Sports Partnership
• Sport England
• sportscoach UK

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CSCS in Surrey

• This Working Group has agreed timescales,
  certain procedures, and a work programme for the
  Group to ensure the CSCS in Surrey is as open as
  possible and the bidding process is fair.
• The Group has published the Initial Expression
  of Interest Form.
• Criteria for selecting initial bids to work up
  into full bids will be published shortly.
  However, the Briefing Paper (May 2004) and the
  Initial Expression of Interest Forms Guidance
  Notes give a very clear indication of what
  projects should be trying to achieve.
• Recommendations for further and future
  development of the CSCS in Surrey will be
  published shortly.

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CSCS in Surrey

• Maximum 196,000 available every year for 3
  years.
• Equates to approximately
• 8 Full-time CSCs
• 50 Part-time CSCs.
• These must be in post no later than March 2006.
• Flexibility around actual numbers, for example
• can combine part-time posts
• can offer job-share opportunities
• any other ideas?

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• Examples of what the Community Sports Coach can
  do
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• The Coach can work in one sport, or across a
  number of sports, in a certain geographical area
• The Coach can work up to 25 in school curriculum
  time
• The Coach must spend a minimum of 70-75 of their
  time coaching
• Up to 25 of a coachs time can be spent
  mentoring other coaches, doing administration/spor
  ts development attending Continuous Professional
  Development (CPD) courses/workshops
• The coach should be working with young people
  predominantly if, however, there is a need to
  work with adults to raise income and improve
  sustainability, this may be possible but would
  need to be agreed on a coach-by-coach basis.

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• Split into groups of 4-6 people and take 15
  minutes to discuss your initial thoughts on the
  Scheme, including any ideas on what you could bid
  for.
• Write down a rough idea about what each group
  member might be interested in bidding for as
  these can be linked with possible bids from the
  other session.
• Are there any issues that immediately spring to
  mind with the Scheme?

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Main Findings

• Strategic Needs Analysis
• strong support for CSP's to fulfil the role of
  lead strategic
• coordinating agency
• insufficient time available
• expressions of interest approach preferred in
  phase one
• heavy influence of availability of partner
  funding on decision making
• natural bias towards known networks and well
  /resourced schemes
• liaison with NGB's variable

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Main findings

• Funding
• over 80 NGB's and CSP's considered securing
  partner matched funding to be most significant
  challenge to successful implementation of the
  Scheme
• timeframe a major issue
• youth focus potentially restrictive
• poorly resourced projects precluded from phase
  one
• co-ordination of multiple funding bids a major
  challenge
• wide range of funding sources identified
• concerns regarding viability of Scheme for
  part-time coaches

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Main findings

• Deployment focus
• commitment towards core focus on young people but
  flexibility required to reflect need
• strong support for maintaining emphasis on the
  development end of the player pathway
• clarification of predominantly non-curriculum
  time
• need for clarity re. job role linked to other
  functions

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Main findings

• Recruitment / Employment
• local, regional and national advertising
• credibility in delivery crucial to recruit
  the right people
• untested market are the candidates there?
• varied views regarding suitability of salary
  scale
• short-term contractual arrangement negative
  impact?
• employer liabilities a key area of concern

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Main findings

• Training and development
• role and responsibility of scUK CDO's unclear
• lack of training courses for multi-skill /
  FUNdamentals coaches a serious concern
• working in schools and working with hard to
  reach groups key training needs
• regular collective training sessions highly
  beneficial
• crucial role for NGB's

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NGB Survey Response - Need

• 66 NGB's have not undertaken any assessment of
  coach need at different levels linked to player
  pathway
• 66 NGB's have not undertaken any assessment of
  need for coaches based on geographical area
• 71 NGB's consider employment full-time coaches
  to be relevant to their sport
• All NGB's consider employment part-time coaches
  to be relevant to their sport

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CSCS in Surrey

• Employing bodies will be expected to adopt and
  adhere to equitable recruitment practices,
  including consideration of where and how posts
  are advertised. The equity profile of Community
  Sports Coaches will be monitored, and those
  involved in the scheme will be expected to take
  positive steps to identify and reduce barriers to
  employment in coaching by under-represented
  groups over the period of the scheme. Key to
  this will be ensuring that other development
  initiatives targeted at the recruitment of people
  into coaching ensure fair representation based on
  local demographics to ensure that inequalities in
  the coaching workforce are addressed over time.
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• Fair representation of young people benefiting
  from coaching through the Community Sports Coach
  scheme, again based on local demographics, must
  be considered in the needs analysis and planning
  phase and reflected in the recruitment and
  deployment of coaches.

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• Employing Agreements
• In all cases of Good Practice, a clear
  Employment Agreement was drawn up and used for
  employment of all the coaches.
• Clear expectations for the employers to work to
• To make clear responsibilities of the employing
  agency
• Clear who is in charge
• To create consistency across the board
• Service Level Agreements are also needed if there
  a multi-partners

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CSCS in Surrey

• Summarise your project the key aims
• Which sport(s) are you working on?
• Whats your target audience?
• What are your headline objectives?

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CSCS in Surrey

• What area of the County are you working in?
• Have you identified any priority groups that you
  want to target?
• How many hours will your coach(es) work?
• What new activity is going to take place?
• How are you going to increase participation?

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• Who are your partners?
• - Is this an enhancement of existing
  partnership work
• - or completely new partnership working
• Does your plan link in with any national,
  regional or local strategies? If not, how are
  you justifying the need?
• Are you thinking outside the box / trying
  something new?

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CSCS in Surrey

• Other Possible Sources of Funding for Surrey
  Projects
• Surrey Childrens Fund
• Sport Relief
• Sportsmatch
• SCC Members Allowances
• Local Sports Councils
• Surrey Playing Fields Association
• NOF Out of School Hours Learning
• Peter Harrison Foundation
• some others

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CSCS in Surrey

• Surrey Childrens Fund (SCF)
• Have set priorities around disabled children and
  children with emotional and behavioural problems.
  SCF commission organisations to deliver
  innovative services in line with Childrens Fund
  objectives i.e. reducing truancy, reducing health
  inequalities. A service (or project) would need
  to be targeted towards early intervention for
  clients from these groups to avoid poor outcomes.
  The DOT team has done some research on disabled
  stats in the county and this may be of use in
  analysing need and making a case for funding.

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CSCS in Surrey

• Sport Relief Surrey should have approximately
  75k to distribute through Surrey Community
  Action.
•  Sportsmatch matching new sponsorship. Usually
  focus on youth coaching schemes.
•  SCC Members Allowances (12,500/year x 76
  members) - raise awareness about bid and and make
  initial contact through SCC Local Directors.

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• Local Sports Councils usually small beer but
  may help rejuvenate LSCs by directing funding
  into local areas/clubs in need of coaching and
  involving them on project specific steering
  groups.
•  Surrey Playing Fields Association has an
  interest in coaching, maybe interested in
  contributing to the scheme as a whole or
  individual projects.
•  NOF Out of School Hours Learning Money
  available (approx 200k) for a further year in
  Surrey commencing in September. Would be hard to
  access this funding because of the timing.

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• Peter Harrison Foundation (PHF)
• The PHF Opportunities Through Sport programme
  will support projects which
• Provide a focus for skills development and
  confidence building through the medium of sport
• Have a strong training and/or educational theme
• Provide sporting and recreational equipment to
  disadvantaged or disabled people
• Have a high degree of community involvement
• Are run by end users of the projects and
• Engage children or young people that may be at
  risk from crime, exclusion or addiction.
• Eligibility might be hard as they only fund
  organisations who are registered charities or
  friendly or provident societies.

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CSCS in Surrey

• Also
•   NOF PE Sport money left over from the
  capital allocation. Coaches would need to work on
  community coaching schemes at NOF funded sites.
•   Football Foundation Revenue for predominantly
  football projects
•   Youth Funding i.e. Connexions
•   Learning Skills Council?
•   Others?

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CSCS in Surrey

• Funding from Income
• Cant use projected income from Year 1 as Year 1
  partner funding as it is not guaranteed.
• However, any money earned in Year 1 can be used
  in Year 2, and so on.

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CSCS in Surrey

• Sustainability was also highlighted as a major
  issue with regard to funding.
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•          Establishing links with NGBs through
  whole sport plans would strengthen sustainability
  of CSCS.
•          Links to other initiatives and the
  involvement of parents, teachers and volunteer
  coaches was crucial to the sustainability of
  activities locally. In Surrey this could be
  include C4T, SYCO programmes and NOF PE Sport.
•          The CSCS running alongside other
  development programmes i.e. Community Club, SSCo
  schemes and other PESSCL programmes was seen as a
  positive way to enhance sustainability. In
  Surrey, this could involve Bishop Wand and
  Winston Churchill Sports Colleges and SSCo
  schemes. The emerging sports colleges could also
  be involved.
•          Non-sector sports agencies such as New
  Deal and health funding was mentioned though no
  specific examples were given. In Surrey, some of
  the national schemes may well not be eligible as
  they are deprivation linked such as those from
  the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit i.e. New Deal,
  Community Empowerment Fund, Community Chest Fund.

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CSCS in Surrey

• Expressions of interest are invited from
  organisations which meet the criteria and are
  able to match the funding available from
  Government (DCMS) to employ Community Sports
  Coaches. Applications will then be made by SSP
  to the south east Sport England offices, with
  funding decisions made by the south east Regional
  Sports Board.
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• Working Group makes proposal on CSC posts to SSP
  Management Group
• SSP Management Group makes final decision on
  which projects are supported.
• SSP submit application to Regional Sports Board

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• Initial submissions of interest to be returned
  31 August 2004
• Panel sits and makes decision on which bids to
  accept 9 September 2004
• Phase 2 Bids (start Mar 05) to be written up in
  detail and submitted 29 October 2004
• Regional Sports Board meets and assess bids
  decision made 1 December 2004
• Recruitment process starts 1 January 2005
• Coaches to be employed by 25 March 2005
• Phase 3 Bids (start Apr 05 Mar 06) to be
  written up in detail and submitted by
• 31 January 2005 for RSB decision Mar 2005 coach
  to be employed by Mar 2006
• 29 April 2005 for RSB decision June 2005 coach to
  be employed by Mar 2006
• 29 July 2005 for RSB decision Sept 2005 coach to
  be employed by Mar 2006
• 31 October 2005 for RSB decision Dec 2005 coach
  to be employed by Mar 2006

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CSCS in Surrey

• Free Training Seminars from sportscoach UK and
  the Surrey Sports Partnership
• Employing Coaches (Open to all)
• Monday 27th September, 7-10pm, Leatherhead TBC
• Developing Coaches (For SDOs)
• Tuesday 19th October, 1-4pm, Guildford
• Long Term Athlete Development (For SDOs)
• Wednesday 8th December, 1.30-4.30pm, TBA

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CSCS in Surrey

• Who should I contact for more details?
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• Now speak to your colleagues, local authority
  and/or National Governing Body sports development
  officers, or any other organisation you work with
  to discuss the Scheme.
• Try to be as creative as possible when working
  with different organisations so you can help
  achieve the objectives and receive the necessary
  support needed.

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• Who should I contact for more details?
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• For further information on the Community Sports
  Coach scheme in Surrey, please contact
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• Campbell Livingston Sarah White
• Club Coach Development Officer Active Sports
  Manager
• Campbell.Livingston_at_surreycc.gov.uk sarah.white_at_su
  rreycc.gov.uk
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• Surrey Sports Partnership, Surrey Sports
  Development Unit, Christs College Guildford,
  Larch Avenue, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 1JY 01483
  518944 www.activesurrey.com