DCMs roles and responsibilities?
- Secure and distribute funding to sports organisations
- Funds Sport England to encourage participation in 14-25 year olds
- Encourages life long participation
- Provides more opportunities for competitive sport
- Promotes major sporting events in the UK
- Promotes initiatives to increase participation
- Promotes the country as a vibrant and cultural place and raise the economy
DOH roles and responsibilities?
- Trains staff in sport and exercise medicine
- Encourages life long participation in sport
- Works alongside the other governmental departments
- Promotes exercise and health related campaigns such as “couch to 5k”
DFE roles and responsibilities?
- Promotes Pe as a vital part of the curriculum
- Encourages life long participation in sport
- Works alongside the other governmental departments
- Promotes careers in sport through education
- Supports development of school sport and PE through funding school sport premium
NGB roles and responsibilities?
- Organisations of competitions & Tournaments in the sport
- Talent identification and support pathways for development
- Increase participation in their sport & sport development
- Education for Athletes & promotion of ethnics and values
- Setting and enforcing rules and regulations in the sport
- Provide, distribute funding and support for facilities, equipment & staffing
- Training officials and coaches
- Providing education for elite athletes
- Raising awareness of sport, particularly to certain target groups (Age groups)
- Working with international governing bodies/named organisations (Sport England)
What are the 3 Governmental departments?
- Department for Health
- Department for Education
- Department for Culture Media and sport
Describe how the Department for Culture, Media and sport is involved with the organisation of sport in the UK.
- Works with the Department of Education and or Health
- Increases participation
- Funds Sport England/UK Sport
- Promoted life long involvement amongst 14-25 year olds
- Contributes to the ‘School Games Programme’
- Provides more opportunities to play competitive sports
- Promotes major sporting events
In the Uk various organisations are involved with sport and physical activity; one such organisation is Sport England.
Describe the work of Sport England.
- Increases participation / more involved at grass roots level
- Launches campaigns/initiatives
- Supports the government targets
- Provides or distributed lottery or government funding
- Promotes or encourages volunteers/coaches/ officials
- Targets priority groups (disabled)
- Works with other organisations (UK Sport)
- Responsible for funding some elite sports (netball)
- Provides information and expertise (people survey)
- Protects community playing fields/provides community facilities
Worldwide sport is controlled by International Governing Bodies, Committees and Federations.
Give one example of an International Governing Body and describe the role of that organisation
- Promotes the game/event/increases participation
- Organises tournaments/events/decide on host nation (FIFA)
- Creates and amends the laws of the game (FIFA)
- Uses the game/event to improve education
- Uses he game/event to improve ethics and play fair
- Uses the game/event to unite people/remove barriers
- Tackles drug problems
- Promotes equality in sport and the participation of women
Examples of a European Governing bodies in sport:
Football - UEFA the union of European football Association
Rugby - Rugby Europe
Cricket - Cricket Europe
Netball - Netball Europe
Examples of International Governing Bodies:
Football - FIFA
Cricket - ICC
Rugby -World Rugby
Athletics - World athletics
Basketball - FIBA
Examples of National Governing bodies:
Football - The FA
Cricket - ECB
Rugby Union - RFU
Boxing - England Boxing
UK Sport main role is to provide funding for Olympic and Paralympic sports and athletes (TRUE or FALSE)
True
National governing bodies have a number of roles and responsibilities to fulfil within their sport; one of these is sports development.
Describe other roles and responsibilities of a national governing body of sport.
1.setting of rules and regulations
2. Organising competitions/tournaments/initiatives/events
3. Increasing participation rates
4. Involvement with target groups
5. Talent development
6. Raising awareness/promote the sport
7. Develop grassroots (Just play)
8. Providing education to athletes and performers (Anti-doping & equality)
9. Training coaches and officials
10. Providing/distribute funding
Sporting organisations within the UK work together. One such relationship is between a national governing body and Sport England.
Describe how a national governing body and Sport England work together.
- Increase participants
- Set up competitions and events
- Meet government recommendations for physical activity for 14-25 year olds
- Reducing Barriers for under-represented groups (female)
5.Develop projects aimed at disabled people to increase participation - Provide funding for NGB elite development programmes
- Improves coaching standards (coaching plan)
- Help support the delivery of whole Sport Plans
- Provides safeguarding and support resources to the NGBs
- Deliver ‘The High Performance NGB programme’.
- Develop grass roots provision to identify and develop talent.
UK Sport provides strategic support for its world-class coaches when working with elite performers. One was they do this is through investment in performance analysis. Describe how performance analysis will support coaches and improve elite level sport.
- Allows focus on strengths and weaknesses of players/what the performer needs to improve on
- Uses video platforms (slow motion replays)
- Helps performer progress
- Support the training environment through the use of video-data monitoring and statistical data (GPS trackers) tackles made, passes completed
- Understand where performers are in terms of their performance
- Allow focus on strengths and weaknesses of opposition in players
- Provides post event analysis
Describe four positive impacts which lottery funding has on sport other than improving elite level performance.
- Provides economic benefits (urban regeneration)
- Supports the generation of more full time jobs in sport
- Improves health
- By providing opportunities to take part in events
- To increase participation
- Reduce crime rates/antisocial behaviour
- Improve self-esteem of people playing in sport
- Improves facilities/equipment
The School Games, which is funded by Sport England and delivered by the Youth Trust, is a sports initiative which provides chances for young people to take part in different sports events within their schools and between schools, at local, regional and national level.
Suggest the possible benefits for schools and their students in participating in such an initiative.
- Provides more opportunities and new experiences for those not engaged in competitive sport
- Provides access to a range of competition formats
- Develops a young persons skills/values
- Allows young people to have fun
- Develops leadership skills through volunteers roles
- May improve engagement in school
- Develops experience of emotions linking to winning and losing
- Increase the reputation of the school
Organisations involved in sport in the UK sometimes work together.
Give two examples of how National Governing Bodies work with different UK sports organisations.
- Government:
DCMS
DFH
DFE
-National Governing bodies
RFU
FA
Lawn Tennis Association
-National Lottery
-Sport England
-UK Sport - English Federation for Disability (EFDS)
NGBs and Sport England - Sport England invests funds into individual NGBs and provides financial support to NGB elite development programmes
NGBs and EFDS - work in partnership with NGBs to promote inclusion and improve provision and participation amongst disabled people in the relevant sport
NGBs and government- UK athletics, DCMS and British Olympic Association working together to win bidding process and deliver London 2012
How might the DCMS and DFE help other sports organisations to develop sports participation?
- Secure funding from treasury for investment in sport
- Distribute/receive funding to sports organisations
- Help to attract sponsorship through their own support of sports events/schemes
- Promotion/initiatives to improve overall participation levels
- Promotion of careers/roles within sport through curriculum
- Retention of PE as part of core school curriculum
- Use of sporting role models to back government initiatives
People over 50 or retired are a target group for increasing sports participation.
One role of sports organisations is to train and develop coaches.
Describe two ways in which training and developing coaches can help to improve levels of participation in sport and physical activity.
- Having more coaches available will increase amount of coaching provision
- Provision will be better with more qualified coaches
- Coaching young people is likely to lead to them being involved in the sport for longer
- Coaches help to promote sport and it’s benefits
- If people want to take a new sport but don’t know where to start they need some coaching/guidance
The DFH fund the Youth Sports Trust to run the ‘Change 4 life’ sports club, which encourages less active children to take part in more physical activity.
Describe the values developed and physiological benefits for a child participating in regular physical activity through a Change 4 Life club.
Physiological benefits;
1. Increased bone density/ reduces Osteoporosis
2. Increased tendon strength/ increase flexibility
3. Increased strength of respiratory muscles
4. Cardiac hypertrophy (stronger heart, reduce blood pressure)
5. Control body weight/ prevent obesity
6. Reducing the chance of chronic diseases (CHD Diabetes)
7. Decreased resting heart rate
Values gained;
1. Sportsmanship
2. Teamwork
3. Develop communication skills
4. Teaches tolerance and respect / equality
5. Develop leadership skills / captain
6. Discipline and improving honesty as they abide by the rules of the game
Describe how the DFE is involved with the organisation of sport in the UK.
- Determine amount of Physical Education in the national curriculum/ what’s included in PE curriculum
- Funding for school PE / PE and Sport Premium
- Support initiatives such as the school games programme
- Protect school playing fields
- Works with Sport England to trains teachers and organise CPD
- Encourage healthy lifelong participation
Name a IGB and explain how it’s work impacts on sport in the UK
IGB - FIFA / IOC (International Olympic Committee)
1. Increase participation
2. Set rules and regulations
3. Removing barriers/ uniting people
4. Improving education (youth)
5. Improving health and the quality of life
6. Sets international and European fixture dates
7. Promote values ethics and fair play
8. Promote the involvement of different target groups
9. Implementing new technology
10. Using the success of major events (Olympic & World Cup) to distribute resources to develop sport in the UK
Describe how County Sports Partnerships (CSPs) increase participation in sport and physical activity.
- Provide a single contact point for a variety of sporting events and activities
- Through promotional campaigns/ coordinated marketing
- Interpret & mould policies (national/regional/local) to best suit communities
- By providing networking opportunities (working with NGB/schools)
- By implementing school/ community games
- By making efficient use of facilities and equipment
- By putting on free taster days
- Training volunteers
