The Coaching Workforce 2009-2016

The Coaching Workforce 2009-2016, North J, 2009, April

Providing a methodology and starting point for more systematic workforce planning and development in coaching.

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About the report

Central to the achievement of the UK Coaching Framework vision is the supply of suitably skilled coaches to guide the improvement of sports participants in a way that both matches and stimulates demand. This document must be seen as the start of a journey to understand and develop coaching supply.

A number of key research questions are investigated in the report:

• What is the current demand for coaching among children and adults across the UK?
• What is the current availability of coaches to meet this demand?
• How does this supply of coaches relate to the planned targetsfor participation, performance and high performance sport?
• What are the implications for the coaching workforce in order to achieve planned targets and to achieve realistic growth up to 2016?
• What is the current state of data management relating to the coaching workforce and what are the issues that need to be addressed in developing robust systems to underpin the planning and development of the coaching workforce?

The concepts and methodologies described in this report will be scrutinised, refined and applied by the Home Countries and Governing Bodies to deliver world-leading coaching at the front line by 2016.

More information

The document can be downloaded from the Related Information section on the right hand side of the page.