Workforce Governance and Registration Register

With support from DCMS (Government Department for Culture, Media & Sport) UK Sport and Sport England have been working with (CIMSPA) the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity, to create a Workforce Governance and Registration register whereby ALL sports and physical activity coaches/instructors will need to be registered. This will require that all coaches and instructors are appropriately trained and qualified to be coaches in their sport/art.

The reason for this is the totally unacceptable levels of physical harm or injury, abuse and discrimination that is occurring in sport. In the UK, studies (such as Alexander et al., 2011) have shown the prevalence of emotional-psychological abuse of children in sport to be as high as 75%, with 24% of young people surveyed reporting physical abuse of some form.

CIMSPA is working with the National Governing Bodies and other stakeholders to be inline with the government strategy for the future of sport and physical activity. Our understanding is that to be on the register you will need to apply through your sports National Governing Body which in the UK for Taekwondo is the British Taekwondo Council.

The potential fall-out for not being on the register and having the correct qualifications could be that an instructor might not be granted permission to teach in Sports Centres, Schools, Community Centres and public authority premises or able to obtain insurance cover as the insurance industry is also being engaged with to get on board with the project.

The British Taekwondo Council’s mandatory Instructor Course, safeguarding course and other training and policies will go a long way into providing BTC instructors the qualifications required to be on the Workforce Governance and Registration register.

We are not sure of the timeframe for full implementation but many National Governing Bodies are now making preparations for this.

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