Doncaster Council

Sports Coach UK Workshops

Sports Coach UK is the body responsible for coach education and development within the United Kingdom. It offers a wide variety of workshops, applicable to anyone in any sport! These are highly practical and applied sessions, supported by a resource pack.

If your group / organisation would like to attend a workshop that is not listed here then please telephone 01302 737377 with your details.

Good Practice and Child Protection

Protect yourself, the young people you are coaching and your employer by understanding and following good coaching practice.

This workshop will help you, the coach, to:

• identify good coaching practice to promote a positive relationship with children,
• identify sport situations / coaching practice that might constitute either poor practice or possible abuse,
• identify ways of dealing with your own feelings about child abuse and state what constitutes neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse,
• recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse,
• identify appropriate action if a child discloses he/she has been abused,
• identify appropriate action if abuse is suspected and explain the role and responsibilities of other experts,
• describe appropriate practice that reduces the likelihood of abuse occurring.                      

Equity in your Coaching

Everyone should have access to sport, regardless of gender, age, race, ability, faith or sexual orientation. As a coach, you have an important role to play in ensuring this happens. The workshop will help you to apply and extend your existing skills to meet the needs of participants.

This workshop will help you, the coach, to:

• explain what equity means and why it is important,
• identify barriers to participation,
• use appropriate language and terminology,
• identify and challenge inequitable behaviour,
• interpret the legal framework that affects coaching,
• identify how they can become more equitable.                      

How to Coach Children in Sport

Aimed at younger coaches, working with children in sport, this workshop presents the basic principles of good practice and introduces the concept of long-term athlete development.

At the end of the workshop, coaches will be able to:

• explain the development of children within sport,
• identify the physiological and psychological differences between children and adults,
• develop safe and effective coaching sessions for children.                      

How to Coach Disabled People in Sport

This workshop tackles all the frequently asked questions posed by sports teachers, coaches and participants about how to work with sports people who have a disability. This includes a whole spectrum of new ideas for inclusion. The workshop will introduce and offer guidance to any coach involved with disabled people in sport, the emphasis being to introduce coaches to the "Inclusion Spectrum" and effective practice.

At the end of the workshop, coaches will be able to:

• determine how to include disabled people in sport,
• select appropriate coaching activities,
• create effective coaching environments.                      

Adults Other Than Teachers (AOTTs) Physical Education Awareness Course

We would like to recruit all parents, coaches, volunteers and others who are working in schools at the moment delivering or helping to deliver sport and physical activity sessions.

Make your sessions safer! This certified course is to enable AOTTs to use sound practice when assisting in the delivery of physical education and school sport.

Content will include awareness of Physical Education and the National Curriculum, school policies and rules, key issues / hot topics in Physical Education, organising and planning Physical Education lessons, safety and personal development in relation to your role in a school.

Eligibility: May include parents, coaches, sport development officers and volunteers. Minimum age of 16 years. Aimed at those assisting in physical education lessons and out of school hours learning, who are not teachers.