Comment
Months and months of paperwork, setting up systems, planning, site visits, meetings and assessments follow the registration. This is all very positive, as the club becomes accredited at the end of it all, but what about the criteria that they now have to meet? Campion says, “No longer could experienced, older cricketers - parents themselves - run net sessions; we had to do a Level 2 coach (minimum) to run them. That meant either cancelling sessions or finding a £25 per hour coach.” As well as this, “If it was a net session, the qualified coach-to-player ratio had to be 1:8. And this was only if it was one net in use - you needed another coach if another was being used!”
For rugby coaching, there are training courses in abundance. To get started, there are the Foundation courses, the Safeguarding courses, and the Player Safety and Wellbeing courses. Then there are the Awards courses, for Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 coaches, as well as the pages of extras. Training for coaches makes a lot of sense in rugby, considering the high impact nature of the sport. However, having taken a look at the list of courses on the RFU website (after searching through endless pages to find them), it is unclear which ones must be done, and which ones are worth doing. I can see how this would put people off, especially considering the time and money that they would have to put in. I have
personally witnessed a few long-standing children’s rugby coaches opt out of the extra courses that they have to take, and all that that involves. Taking three days off for just one of the courses, as well as forking out anything between £105 and £1000, can be quite a task for some.
So, is all this time-consuming bureaucracy causing more problems than it is solving? Not only are the volunteers drifting away, but it seems that the players are doing the same. Not a huge surprise considering the inevitable increases in membership fees as a result of the increases in the club’s outgoings to pay for qualified coaches, courses and accreditation. Not only this, but if the parents aren’t so inclined to pay for
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