Minutes from the Movement and Dance Division Meeting - 4 October 2017

Movement and Dance Division Meeting

Date: Wednesday 4 October 2017

Time: 11:00am

Venue: Farrer & Co, 66 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH

PRESENT:

In the Chair: Tracy Levy (Margaret Morris Movement International Ltd)

Deputy Chair: Annette Hufton (NATD)                                                                      

MEMBERS: Lillian Aubrey (Northern Counties Dance Teachers Association Ltd), Alex Boyd (Lishi International), Ansell Chezan (UKA Dance), Colin Corbett (Guild of Professional Teachers of Dance), Diane Corbett (ADFP), Jacqueline Harper (Margaret Morris Movement International Ltd), Maggie Killingbeck (Laban Guild for Movement and Dance), Lisa Marucci (Language of Dance Centre), Patrick McGeough (WDSA UK), Margaret Peggie (Fitness League), Ann Thomson (Extend), Jane Tumelty (IDTA), Hilary Weedon (Medau Society)

ABSENT WITH APOLOGIES: Christine Bannister (Keep Fit Association), Nicola Gaines (Dalcroze Society), Pat Hawkins (United Kingdom Cheerleading Association), Barbara Rose (The Medau Society), Jan Williams (BATD)

IN ATTENDANCE: Emma Boggis (CEO, Sport and Recreation Alliance), Anne Usher MBE (Sport and Recreation Alliance - Board Member), Adrian Ruth (Sport and Recreation Alliance - Board Member), Chantel Scherer (Director of Marketing, Communications and Member Engagement), Rob Arnott (Communications and Engagement Manager), Rob Tate (Governance Manager), Aquila Burgess (Projects Support Officer)

1. CHAIR’S REMARKS

Tracy welcomed everyone to the meeting and introduced the division to the Alliance’s board members Adrian Ruth and Anne Usher MBE. Tracy asked each member of the group to briefly describe what their organisation does, which can be found here.

Following the presentation by Adrian Ledbury from the CSP network in February 2017, Tracy reported that she received an email from their chief executive Lee Mason, which explained how the CSP network will aim to strength their links with the dance community. The CSP network also mentioned they plan to build dance into their Convention next year.

Actions:

• Tracy to forward the email from Lee Mason to the division.
• Those members who have yet to share class data with Tracy for publication on CSP sites to contact Tracy as soon as possible.

The PE & School Sport Suppliers Hub is an online portal which will bring school sport providers together into one central database. The aim of the Hub is to make it easier for teachers and schools to find the most appropriate suppliers  to meet the needs of their students and effectively utilise their Primary PE and Sport Premium. Teachers often struggle to find high quality providers of services to meet their PE and Sport needs, while external providers struggle to make their offer known to schools. To solve this problem the hub will enable providers to showcase their products and services, while teachers can easily search through them.  The site, which is being set up by London Sport and supported by the County Sports Partnership Network,  will launch for London at the end of September and is free to join for both suppliers who would like to advertise their services and teachers who would like to browse their options. Try the link here to access the test site. They are inviting suppliers to COMPLETE FORM HERE to register.

Tracy updated the members on the progress of the @Sportrecdance twitter account which is going strong with 344 followers.

Actions:

• Members should ask their clubs and instructors to start following the Twitter account, this will help Tracy to spread the message of the great work your grassroots clubs/instructors are doing.

Tracy also informed the group that she was planning to run a social media campaign which will look to promote the positive benefits of dance.

Actions:

• Members to send their evidence and photos which they feel highlight the positive benefits of dance to Tracy.
• Members can also post tweets from their own accounts by including the @sportrecdance handle in any of their tweets, which Tracy will then retweet.

2. MEMBERS DISCUSSION

This was an opportunity for members to share issues and discuss best practice. Lilian Aubrey raised the issues around child performance and activities licensing legislation in England, and especially the issues that are currently happening in the Tyne-Wear area. The legislation provides advice for local authorities and individuals working with children in all types of professional or amateur performances, paid sport and paid modelling. The link to the legislation can be found here.

Actions:

• The Alliance to read the documents and summarise the key points from the document and report back to the group at the next meeting in February 2018.
• The Alliance will try to source a speaker for the next meeting from either the Department of Education or the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to speak about the licensing.

3. SAFEGUARDING DISCUSSION

Patrick Mcgeough updated the division on the wider sector issues around safeguarding which focuses on all ages. The consensus from the group was the sector needs to start tackling the barriers for participation, and that these conversations need to start happening at board level before being filtered down to the grassroots. There are currently issues around the attitudes of coaches and teachers who need to be more accommodating to those with disabilities.

Actions:

• Check if your website is suitable for those with a visual impairment. Tools such as Bobby and Vischeck can help you do this.
• Working with your local clubs/teachers to make sure they adapt their sessions for people with disabilities.

4. SPORT AND RECREATION ALLIANCE UPDATE

Emma Boggis updated about work of the Alliance including;

A. GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force on 25 May 2018. This is a replacement for the Data Protection Act, and will look at how members use and store data. To help our members we have already produced a member briefing (to access the document, you must be logged into the members area). We are running a free one-day event at the Nottingham Conference Centre on 14 November, members can find out more information here and bookings will open on Monday 9 October.

B. OPEN DATA PROJECT

OpenActive is an ambitious, community-led initiative sponsored by Sport England for change across the sport and physical activity sector, which promotes the use of opportunity data to help people get active. It is being coordinated by the Open Data Institute (ODI), an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organisation.

Their goal is to make data on what, where and when physical activity sessions happen, openly available. For example, this “opportunity data” includes details of a yoga class (“how much will it cost?”) through to badminton court availability (“where and when is a court available?”). 

Open Active is looking to bring together organisations from across the sector to open up their opportunity data, from leisure operators to National Governing Bodies, local sports clubs to event providers, walking groups to fitness instructors.

Actions:

• Encourage your members to make their data open. Those who are interested in sharing their data with the ODI, please contact Emma Boggis (eboggis@sportandrecreation.org.uk)

C. GOVERNANCE

Rob Tate provided an update on the 3 key areas that the Alliance are working on to instil good governance. The Principles of Good Governance for Sport and Recreation was launched at the Sports Summit in May 2017 and is a refresh of our Voluntary Code of Good Governance. The Principles is an essential tool for any sport and recreation organisation and their clubs that aspire to the highest standards of governance and organisational performance. Members who haven’t re-affirmed their commitment already can do so here.

The second update focused around board recruitment. Members can advertise any current board vacancies on the Alliance website for free, and for more information please email jobs@sportandrecreation.org.uk. The Alliance is also gathering a pool of non-executive directors which can be made available to join your board, should you have a vacancy available. Additionally, if you have recently filled a board position, but have candidates that you would like to recommend them for other non-executive position in the sector, please email aburgess@sportandrecreation.org.uk for more information.

To support the Principles, there is a Governance Training Programme, running until March 2018 which is a series of workshops, webinar and seminar, all of which will get you thinking about your own organisation's practices, any questions can be emailed to governance@sportandrecreation.org.uk 

D. UK COACHING CERTIFICATE

Sport England have commissioned the Alliance to run an independent review of the UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC). The aim of the project is to see whether the UKCC is still fit for purpose in line with their new coaching plan released this year. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2018.

E. SPORTS CLUB SURVEY

The Alliance has also been commissioned by Sport England to run a sports club survey. This survey will build on our previous biennial surveys. The survey will look to determine the state of health across grassroots sport and recreation clubs and organisations, work is scheduled to start shortly so please encourage your clubs to fill out the survey when it is released.

F. DUTY OF CARE

The Duty of Care in Sport review, an independent report by Baroness Grey-Thompson, considered the duty of care sport has towards its participants at both elite and grassroots level. The report was published in April 2017 and set out recommendations for Government, sports governing bodies and other stakeholders. We have produced a member briefing which can be found here, and the full report can be accessed here.

G. MEMBER BENEFITS

Rob Arnott provide an update on the benefits that the Alliance will offer. Tom Morgan our Membership Development Officer was unable to attend this meeting, but is looking forward to speaking with all members in the future. If you have any questions or wish to speak about your membership, please email tmorgan@sportandrecreation.org.uk 

5. MEMBERSHIP REVIEW PROJECT

Rob Arnott led a brainstorming session with members about the membership review project which will look to implement changes from our new strategy, to make sure the Alliance is supporting members as effectively as possible.

Actions:

• Members to complete the survey

6. AOB

The GDPR workshop information will be made available to members after the workshop in Nottingham.

7. DATES OF NEXT MEETING

• Thursday 8 February 2018, the venue is Gateley Plc - London.

Minutes from the Movement and Dance Meeting - 4 October 2017

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