Community Sport Coach Scheme

What is the Community Sports Coach Scheme?

The headline objective for the Community Sports Coach Scheme is to establish 3,000 paid, qualified Community Sports Coach working at local level to increase the number and range of coaching opportunities according to strategic and local need by the end of 2006.

The Community Sports Coach Scheme (CSCS) is a positive step that challenges the traditional view of coaching. This will be achieved through development of:

  • A career structure for coaching
  • An increase in the number of qualified coaches employed at a local level
  • An Increase in quality standards for the recruitment, employment, management and development of coaches
  • A managed, quality continuous professional development support for employed coaches
  • And high quality coaching, with a focus on young people.

The development of a pool of high-quality coaches will not only contribute to enhancing the quality of existing activity but also provide the opportunity to generate substantial new activity over time.

 

Qualifications

A Community Sports Coach is National Governing Body qualified and employed on a full or part-time basis to coach sport and physical activity in the community. They can focus on one sport, multi-sports &/or generic multi-skills, work in schools, community &/or club settings, and with children &/or adults, to raise participation in sport whilst delivering high quality activities.

In addition, coaches should ideally have been, or be within 6 months of employment, trained in at least the following areas:

  • Child Protection
  • First Aid
  • Disability Awareness
  • Equity Awareness
  • Long Term Athlete Development

 

Deployment - Procedures and Activities

Coaches must follow an employers' child protection/safeguarding policies and proecdures as well as relevant health & safety and equity guidelines.

Coaches should coach a MINIMUM of 66% of their time. The rest of their time can be taken up by some administration, their own training and development, or travel between sites on the same day. They should not be development officers; development work should be done by a development officer &/or line manager.

Of their coaching work, no more than half of that time can be taken up coaching within curriculum time (Phases 1, 2 and 3). The most recent coaches (phase 4) have been limited to a maxiumum of 25% of coaching time in curriculum time. When coaching in schools, coaches should "Team Teach", working with the teacher to jointly run the session and to impart specific coaching knowledge to the staff.

 

Coaches in West Yorkshire

There are many different types of coaches currently working across West Yorkshire through the Community Sports Coach Scheme. There are coaches in the following sports:

  • Athletics
  • Basketball
  • Boccia
  • Canoeing/Kayaking
  • Cricket
  • Dance
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Multi-Skills
  • Multi-Sports
  • Rugby League
  • Rugby Union
  • Squash
  • Swimming
  • Tennis