National Competition Framework
Following consultation during Spring 2005, with a wide range of sports a National Competition Framework for schools was established to increase the amount of inter- schools competition available to young people and to improve the quality of existing competitive opportunities.
The National Competition Framework is in principle a 'good practice' model for the delivery of competitive sport for young people, The framework has been developed jointly by The Youth Sport Trust, Sport England and the National Council for School Sport collaboratively with a wide range of national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) and School Sport Associations.
The vision is to develop for each sport a single competitive framework top to bottom that includes competitions in school and club. The framework seeks to increase participation in high quality competition for all young people; and will also be used as the basis of the review process to transform talent identification and development for 2012 and beyond.
Developing a world class system of competitive sport for young people
The ambition is to create a step change in content, structure and presentation of competitive opportunities for young people of school age by modernizing competition structures. For some sports this will culminate in the UK School Games a pinnacle multi sport event which will profile the most talented young athletes aspiring to compete in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games and create a legacy for future sporting generations.
This agenda will create a heightened profile for school sport, and specifically competitive opportunities. The work will start to eliminate duplication and over competition for many youngsters. The frameworks are designed to broaden the range of opportunities at the base and improve coherence from local to regional to national level, clearing and un-cluttering pathways. In addition the frameworks will star to signpost the most appropriate competitive opportunities for talented young performers in each sport, and significantly clarify relationships and responsibilities between providers like NGBs and Schools Associations.
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