Stratagies and inititives relating to sports participation

Aim: ECM aims to protect children and help

maximise their opportunites and life chances

to help fulfill their potential especially through

sport. The government wanted to ensure that

every child has the required support to;

- Stay healthy

- Be safe

- Acheive economically

- Contribute to society positively

- Enjoy life

How we will acheive our aims:

ECM will get local authorities like us to ensure that we are working with multi - agency partners to help create the best for our children in Down - meaning working with children to find out what would suit them best.

Strength and weaknesses:

Strengths -

- Encouragment for more sports,

- Encouragment for multi - cultures to join,

- Giving interactive talks on safety.

Weaknesses -

- Needs to encourage more people to join in,

- Keep better contact with the children involved.

Opportunities and threats:

Opportunities -

- Teach children about safety,

- Enable more students to have access to more facilities

- Organising games and activites after school for all ages/ genders/ethnicity.

Threats -

- Some may not be able to travel to different areas,

- Other organisations are developing similar ideas and creating competition.

Aims:

- Supply schools with a sport bag and trained leaders,

- Provide physical activity and sport options for people with special needs

- Get a vehicle to enable transport for both disabled and non - disabled people

- Provide a basic introduction to a range of sports and activities.

How we will achieve the aims:

- Offer free online resources

- Offer practical advice to teachers

- User manuals

- Sport for the disabled

- Sport adaptions

Strength and weaknesses:

Strengths -

- Giving equipment to schools,

- Creating talks and presentations,

- Involving more schools and multi - cultures.

Weaknesses -

- Not enough trained leaders,

- No solution for inclusion of disabled and non - disabled.

Opportunities and threats:

Opportunities -

- Organise events for different ages and cultures,

- Teach sports to disadvantaged people,

- Provide a wider range of sports.

Threats -

- Families may have prior commitments,

- People may not have access to transport,

- Not enough people willing to become leaders.

Aims:

- Encourage 2+ hours of sport weekly

- Breadthen and balance core PE programmes

- Widen oppotunities in competitions

- Support talented sport people

- Leadership training

How we will fulfill our aims:

We will try to encourage schools to join the sportsmark

organisation, helping to develop sporting activities and encouraging more people to try more sports - training staff and offering funds for transport to events and also for equipment, as the development officer - trying to organise local matches between schools in the Down area.

Strength and weaknesses:

Strength -

- Encouragment,

- Organising lots of leadership sessions,

- Going and talking to multiple schools.

Weaknesses -

- Offering a variety of sports in our area,

- Giving support to talented performers,

- Not many people wanting to become leaders.

Opportunities and threats:

Opportunities -

- Organising sessions at multiple times and dates,

- Encourage more multi - cultural participants.

Threats -

- Some times may not suit families,

- Travel may not be possible,

- May be hard to organise events in schools.

All 3 initiatives have similarities and differences;

- All deliver more sport across the Down area,

Each have their own unique aim;

- TOP Programmes - Provide equipment and a leader,

- Every Child Matters - Teach children about safety,

- Sports Mark - Encourage schools to offer more sport.

What each initiative looks at and how we are going to help our local community in relation to the three initiatives;

- Every child matters - looks at the overview of each child

- Sports Mark - Encouraging all students to do more,

- Tops Programme - Based on the 'doing' side of things.

It's all one big opportunity for Down:

Organising activities in a variety of areas and at multiple times, organising a bus to take children from school to the activity centre and then home - increasing participation and making children happier in County Down.

Strategies and initiatives relating to sports participation

Every Child Matters

Every child matters is a government strategy, that aims to improve childrens care nationally.

Strategies and initiatives

As a Sports development officer in the Down area, I have made a plan to encourage more participation in sport from multicultural backgrounds and I am going to do this through 3 strategies and initiatives - one national; Every child matters and two local; TOP programmes and Sportsmark.

Sportsmark

TOP Progammes

Sportsmark is an award for outstanding schools for sports provision, since sportsmarks sucesses, multiple other awards have been put into place; Activemark for primary schools, sportsmark for secondary schools and Sports Partnership Mark for independent schools.

A school can acheive the award if at least 90% of students are doing two hours of sport.

TOP Programmes is possibly one of the best known schemes that helps develop sport across England. The inititive is lead by the Youth Sport Trust.