Competition Managers
In September 2005, the Government announced the appointment of 20 new Competition Managers for School Sport Partnerships. These new posts will help to increase the quality and amount of competitive sport currently played in and amongst schools across England. They will also contribute significantly to the creation of a high quality school sport national competition framework.
Their overall role will be to manage and co-ordinate the planning and implementation of school competitions within and between School Sport Partnerships. They will also reach out to local, regional and national governing body competitions.
Starting in September 2005, 20 School Sport Partnerships will be involved in the first pilot phase in the following areas:
- West Yorkshire,
- Cornwall,
- Hampshire,
- Sussex and
- Greater (Manchester) Sport.
Funding for these new posts will come from the additional £519 million announced by the Government in December 2004 to continue and expand the national PE, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy from 2006 - 2008. This will also fund an extra 25 Competition Managers in School Sport Partnerships by September 2006 and a total of 90 from September 2007. The aim (subject to ongoing funding) is to have one Competition Manager employed within all School Sport Partnerships by 2010.
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Competition Framework
A national schools competition framework has been developed which complements the principles of long term athlete development. A wide ranging consultation is at present being undertaken with a large number of national governing bodies and national school sport associations.
This approach will provide consistency to competition structures across sports that reflect the local player pathway development being undertaken by County Sport Partnerships. The content of this framework, shown below, will be 'customised' for a range of sports. To date, 16 have expressed an interest in being involved, 7 of which will be included from September 2005 as follows:
- Rugby Union,
- Netball,
- Gymnastics,
- Swimming,
- Badminton,
- Tennis, and
- Table Tennis.
This doesn't of course mean that partnerships will be prevented from taking part in competitions in other sports. Rather these are the sports we are initially working with to adapt their competition frameworks to better fit the new school sports infrastructure being created by the network of school sport partnerships.
The competitions within each sport's framework will be scheduled and delivered consistently to a local template, through School Sport Partnerships.
Latest updates and developments around the emerging National Schools Competition framework and the new Competition Managers who will be employed in School Sport Partnerships from September 2005 are explained in the Schools Competition Developments Bulletin 2 July 2005 PDF (88kb).
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