Developing a centre for disability sport

Turning a vision into reality (in 500 days)

6 key principles:

• Belief – that PE, physical activity, and sport can have a significant impact on peoples lives

•Desire – to ensure this was on behalf of disabled people rather than something being done for them

• Understanding - that to achieve a goal you need a clear vision shared by all involved

• Commitment - to partnership working through being transparent and honest

• Flexibility – in an ever changing resourcing framework to create local solutions

• Determination – to make ‘something’ happen

Key barriers to the vision:

• Reduction in funding to PE and sport

• Reduction in community resources and changes to a more equity role

• Direct delivery vs capacity building of others

• Over reliance on grant aid to support direct delivery

• Disproportionate negative impact on ‘hard to reach groups’

• ‘Disability sport’ vs the disability and special educational needs community

•Protectionism within agencies over limited resources

PE and school sport structure

Core offer – key headlines to date

• Member of key strategic groups including Leicester Sports Board Executive

•Vice Chair of School Games to ensure inclusion is embedded

• Every special school has an agreed plan for the DfE funding to enhance PE and sport

•All special schools have accessed a professional support meetings

• 92 teachers have attended one of 7 CPD courses

•All SGO’s have received inclusion training, as have the sports regeneration team

• Successful Sportivate applications in 5 focus sports

Core offer – key headlines to date - continued

•1147 coaching hours supporting 194 SEN students across city special schools delivered by NGB’s. 60 young disabled people access an NGB talent day

• 3 special school holiday programmes targeting 253 user visits and 5 after-school disability sports clubs established

• 58 young disabled people on a leadership programme and 2 leadership residential experiences support 30 young people. 18 young people trained as wheelchair basketball referees

• 20 Paralympic roadshows booked in across the city

• 21 students receive additional PE and sport accreditation through pilot programme

Core offer – funding the core offer

•Equitable split of across all city special schools of the Department for Education Funding to ensure every school can access the offer

• £150k committed from special schools, Local Authority and Ellesmere to drive a single vision over the next three years

• Additional £15k committed by Leicester Sport Services to support, amongst other aspects the transition between school and community sport

• plus £10k from the Youth Sport Trust to become a project ability site to focus on mainstream schools (city and county) and an additional £20k from the CSP/Leicestershire Special Schools to extend the city offer into the county