Workforce Development
Increased participation in sport and physical activity by children, young people and adults will lead to increased demand for leisure opportunities. With this demand comes the need for an enlarged workforce with ever more sophisticated skills, knowledge and competence.
We need, therefore, to ensure that the sport and physical activity sector in North Yorkshire has the right people in sport with the right skills, by continually raising our profile as a professional sector with initiatives to help up-skill the workforce, increase employability and encourage continuous professional development.
Sport England and the Yorkshire & Humber CSPs are commissioning research to develop a clearer picture of the workforce development needs of the Sports sector in the region. This work will be used to identify priorities for development that will help to create a world-class workforce that supports the Delivery System for Sport and contributes towards government targets namely, 1% p.a. increase in participation.
In Yorkshire, we aim to understand:
the size of our region’s workforce (paid/unpaid, part-time/full-time)
their profile (e.g. age, gender and ethnicity)
what they do (e.g. job titles or role)
their skills gaps
their training needs to fill these gaps.
Using this information, the CSPs will develop sub-regional level Workforce Development Plans with their partners, which identify the training, development and educational needs of the local workforce, setting out over-arching objectives for the next three years, together with priorities and a clear Action Plan for year one.