Glyn Harding Senior Lecturer

Disability is a “state of mind”

Map of key towns inHerefordshire & Worcestershire

BromsgroveBlaze

WorcesterWolves

2010 Club Development

2014 Club EveshamEarthquakes Development

HerefordHarriers

International DevelopmentCentre

International DevelopmentCentre

National League /Development League /

BUCS

(Wolves &/or UW)

National League /Development League /

BUCS

(Wolves &/or UW)

Weekly Development Sessions(Wolves)

(juniors & seniors)

Weekly Development Sessions(Wolves)

(juniors & seniors)

Worcester Wolves /University of

Worcester (UW)Club Player

Pathway

IZB Regional's(Nationals)

IZB Regional's(Nationals)

Schools TasterSessions & Satellite

Clubs

Schools TasterSessions & Satellite

Clubs

The next stage of the journey!The University HEWBO’s… new for 2013/14 academic year (9 regions across the country

with a University Hub Centre)

NE - Durham University

NW – University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

Y - Sheffield Hallam

E – tbc

EM - Nottingham Trent University

WM - University of WorcesterWM - University of Worcester

L - University of East London

SW - Bournemouth University

SE – University of Brighton

This programme aims to grow participation within higher education,

develop a sustainable workforce and support the BWB schools competition framework.

Clubs, Schools & Universities working together to develop and further opportunities

for IZB & Wheelchair basketball. Cross fertilisation of ideas, resources, facilities & opportunities!

University of Worcester MovingForward - considerations

• Student coaching pool / qualifications

• Transport of trailer / insurance

• Clear focus on out and in reach work

• National League

• National Development Centre

• Director of the National Development Centre and his/her links to UW & theWolves Wheelchair teamsWolves Wheelchair teams

• Student team (constituted to UW)

• Finances of club – issues of identity and separate accounts

• Racking of second trailer

• Regional Trailer back from Hereford to Evesham

• Grassroots program (Sat club)

• Development Program (separate training)

• Responsibility for sourcing funding (Sportivate / Satellite Club – Sport Eng /Premium funding – primary schools etc)

• Sponsorship

• Identity / web site

Disability sport Worcester

• Registered Charity

• to develop partnerships to ensure all disability groups andindividuals can access more opportunities across the city-students are placed to help organisations withcapacity.

• resources shared• resources shared

• joint bids put in to get partners working together,

• being the voice for disability sports from top to communitylevels,

• links are made to NGB whole sport plans for disability sportat a local level to where it is needed,

• working with the CSP to shape a vision along withconsulting with local disabled people.

County Sports PartnershipHerefordshire and Worcestershire

The University of Worcester

• Sportivate projects

• Conferences

• Sport makers• Sport makers

• Joint collaboration etc. etc.

• Link to Sport England

• The FA

• Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball.

30 + jobs in sport for children and adults with a disability

Worcester Blind football team

• East Midlands Centre ofExcellence, West MidlandsCentre of Excellence, Londonand Middlesex C of E,Merseyside, RNC andWorcester Blind.

• League started in 2007Worcester have won 4 from 6League titles and 2 BrianAarons FA Cups in 4 years andbeen runner up twice.

• 40% of all players who haverepresented England and GBBlind teams in the last 10 yearshave come from WorcesterUniversity team

Paralympic Profile

Beijing 2008 G.B. Versus Argentina 4 players from WorcesterUniversity Lee scored!

Adapted rowing at Warwick

Recent Sports festival for Worcester schools-“Student coaches are the way forward and make ahuge contribution”

SPRT 1027 Adapted Sport and Physical EducationSPRT 2027 Sport and DisabilitySPRT 3030-Applied Sport and Disability

Inclusive Zone wheelchair BasketballRegional and National finals following

6 weeks tuition

The Senior team 2012 including 5full time students of UW-BUCS?

University of Worcester versus University of Northampton

The youth team 2012

Bromsgrove Hotshots team 2012

Wheelchair Basketball EuropeanChampionships 2015 (preParalympic qualifier) have beenawarded to GBWBBA and to the Cityof Worcester

Mission Statement

Hereford and Worcester Wheelchair Basketball MissionStatement –

• To provide all disabled people with an interest inwheelchair basketball to participate at whatever levelwheelchair basketball to participate at whatever levelthey see fit

• To make the game accessible to people whopreviously were denied the opportunity to play

• Provide a pathway from grassroots to elite within theHereford and Worcester area

• To raise the awareness of able bodied people to thesport

Level 1 course Autumn 2010

Riverside as was….

The Arena as was………

The Arena

Worcester Arena Newswww.worc.ac.uk HIGHER EDUCATION’S FAVOURITE NEWSPAPER - Since 2010

BUCS “Into Inclusion” documentA disability sport strategy forBUCS 2011 – 2016

The challenge for todays gathering!

•“BUCS provides the best Higher Education sport system for disabled students anywherein the world.” page 1

•The institutions that come out as winners will be those with the best record of students going intosuccessful careers, and those with the best “student satisfaction” data. That “student experience”will become a crucial battleground. Page 2

•HESA, in 2008/9 there were 173,379 students in Higher Education declaring a disability, around10% of the total student population. Within that, 3,793 were blind or partially sighted, 7,387 weredeaf or had a hearing impairment, and 5,745 were wheelchair users or declared having mobilitydifficulties.

• Disabled students are more frequently arriving at University havingbeen more positively engaged in community activity and school lifethan in previous generations, though that is not to say that thepicture is perfect yet.

• To support and promote the lifestyle and educational benefits to• To support and promote the lifestyle and educational benefits tocommunities and individuals of taking part in sport, and to provideoutstanding opportunities to all students to engage in sport andrelated activity in higher education www.bucs.org.uk

House of Commons Education andSkills Committee Special

Educational Needs Third Report ofSession 2005–06

The Government’s policy of inclusion has come undercriticism recently—including by Baroness Warnock in her2005 article Special Educational Needs: a new look—forits confused and changing definition

Susan Tresman from the British Dyslexia Association said the “biggest barrieris training.” Richard Rieser, Director of Disability Equality in Education, toldthe Committee:

“we are not preparing teachers of the future for this. How does one hour onthe Code of Practice tell you what to do in the classroom when you are facedwith a lot of different children?”238

300. In evidence to the Committee, the TDA agreed that there was “not a bigemphasis on SEN in initial teacher training”. Ralph Tabberer said that whennewly qualified teachers (NQTs) were asked by the TDA what they wouldhave liked to have done more of “NQTs always say they want more time onSEN”.SEN”.

The Lamb Inquiry 2009

We found many examples where disabled children and children with SENwere side-lined rather than challenged to be the best that they could

possibly be.

My Inquiry has therefore concluded that there needs to be a major reform ofthe current system. We need to act urgently to ensure we do not let ageneration of children leave school ill-equipped to lead an independent lifeand make a contribution to society.

EFDS Rankin M.A. (2012)EXPLORING WHY DISABLED PEOPLE AND DEAF PEOPLE DO AND DON’T

PARTICIPATE IN SPORT

• Insufficient inclusive sports – lack of opportunities allowing disabledpeople to participate, but with the caution that mixing abilities can lead toreduced self esteem and lack of confidence – must ensure that in certainsports, people play alongside others of similar ability

•Lack of help and support - some disabled people need someone to help•Lack of help and support - some disabled people need someone to helpthem get to and find their way around sports facilities and get changed –support can be as simple as helping to put on a sock

•Absence of provision of sport for disabled people once they have leftschool - whereas there may be a focus on sports opportunities for youngpeople whilst they are at school, the experience of participants was that thistends to stop when they leave

•“When I left school I stopped doing sport because there is no place for me.There is no access because of my wheelchair, no right equipment – table toohigh, no lift, no teacher for one-to-one teaching” (physical impairment)

BUCS/EFDS• BUCS organises over 4,500 teams and over 100 championships events every

year in high level student competition, 2013 will see the BUCS bigWednesday event (14 team sports championships finals) take place at LeedsMet University in March, and over 6000 students will compete in the BUCSNationals in Sheffield.

• In EFDS’s analysis of Active People Survey (2009-2010) it showedconsiderably fewer young disabled people are participating in sport comparedwith their non-disabled peers, and in particular disabled girls and young women.with their non-disabled peers, and in particular disabled girls and young women.The strategy will place significantly greater expectation and responsibility onNational Governing Bodies (NGBs/BUCS?) to increase the participation rates ofdisabled people in sport.

• The funding for the sports beyond 2012 will have a strict payment-by-resultssystem and one of the key principles is to grow participation by disabled people.–www.living sport.co.uk youth sport strategy

Any questions?

• Tom Stack-”They don’t care what you know-theywant to know you care”