Triennial review of UK Sport and Sport England announced

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced a triennial review of sports agencies UK Sport and Sport England.

As part of the standard requirement by the Cabinet Office for all Government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) must be reviewed at least once every three years.

Announced through a Written Ministerial Statement laid in Parliament, the triennial review will ensure that the agencies are still needed and are complying with principles of good corporate governance.

Triennial reviews have two aims:

To provide a robust challenge of the continuing need for individual NDPBs – both their functions and their form; and

Where it is agreed that a body remain as an NDPB, to review:

• Its capacity for delivering more effectively and efficiently, including identifying potential for efficiency savings and its ability to contribute to economic growth; and

• The control and governance arrangements in place to ensure that the public body and the sponsoring department are complying with recognised principles of good corporate governance, including an assessment of the body’s performance.

The two organisations are being reviewed together following the decision to maintain them as separate bodies with a shared reform programme. The reforms were designed to allow them to work more closely together to realise significant strategic economic and operational benefits.

The review team is led by Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the Better Regulation Executive in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.

The recommendations of the review are being scheduled for release in July 2015. A challenge group is being set up to rigorously test and challenge the assumptions and conclusions of the review.

As part of the review, the Government is seeking views and evidence about UK Sport and Sport England through an online survey. The closing date for responses is 21 December 2014.

You can read the terms of reference for the review here.

Find out more about UK Sport and Sport England here.
 

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