COMPETITION MANAGER FRAMEWORK
| Launched in September 2005, the National Competition Framework for young people sets out the following vision: - a world-class system of competitive sport for young people; - transformation of the content, structure and presentation of competitive opportunities for young people of school age; - a heightened profile for school sport and, specifically, competitive opportunities. Work is already underway to develop a single competitive framework for each sport that includes competitions in schools and clubs. The challenge is to deliver high quality pathways which will leave a lasting legacy up to and beyond the 2012 Olympics. The story so far This exciting work is a collaboration between the Youth Sport Trust, Sport England, the National Council for School Sport (NCSS) and the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs). So far 20 Sports have rewritten their competition frameworks. Making it happen In 2005 DCMS initially appointed 20 new Competition Managers for School Sport Partnerships. Their task was to increase the quality and quantity of competitive sport in schools throughout England. The role: - To manage and co-ordinate the planning and implementation of the National Schools Competition Framework through a programme of inter-school competition within the School Sport Partnership. - To complement and develop existing provision, building on good practice, ensuring that the competition programme is linked with other programmes in the local area. - To liaise with the County Sports Partnership, National Governing Bodies at county and regional level and the local School Sports Associations to ensure that the programme also fits into the wider context. To date, over 90 competition mangers have since been employed. Increased funding announced in July 2007 will see this number increase to 225 by September 2008, with 1 Competition Manager in place to serve every 2 School Sports Partnership around the country. Their role is to bring these frameworks to life at a local level, and they aim to increase the number of participants in high quality competitions from 35% to 50% by March 2008. |
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| Competition Managers and the National Competition framework | ||
| Launched in September 2005, the National Competition Framework for young people sets out the following vision: - a world-class system of competitive sport for young people; - transformation of the content, structure and presentation of competitive opportunities for young people of school age; - a heightened profile for school sport and, specifically, competitive opportunities. Work is already underway to develop a single competitive framework for each sport that includes competitions in schools and clubs. The challenge is to deliver high quality pathways which will leave a lasting legacy up to and beyond the 2012 Olympics. The story so far This exciting work is a collaboration between the Youth Sport Trust, Sport England, the National Council for School Sport (NCSS) and the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs). So far 20 Sports have rewritten their competition frameworks. Making it happen In 2005 DCMS initially appointed 20 new Competition Managers for School Sport Partnerships. Their task was to increase the quality and quantity of competitive sport in schools throughout England. The role: - To manage and co-ordinate the planning and implementation of the National Schools Competition Framework through a programme of inter-school competition within the School Sport Partnership. - To complement and develop existing provision, building on good practice, ensuring that the competition programme is linked with other programmes in the local area. - To liaise with the County Sports Partnership, National Governing Bodies at county and regional level and the local School Sports Associations to ensure that the programme also fits into the wider context. To date, over 90 competition mangers have since been employed. Increased funding announced in July 2007 will see this number increase to 225 by September 2008, with 1 Competition Manager in place to serve every 2 School Sports Partnership around the country. Their role is to bring these frameworks to life at a local level, and they aim to increase the number of participants in high quality competitions from 35% to 50% by March 2008. | ||
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