Download EBDOG – Nov 2014 Sport England FINAL

Developing Community Use on
School Sites
A focus on secondary schools
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What are the issues that present challenges for local
communities to access sports facilities on school sites?
Can you influence decision makers to open up or keep
open school sport facilities for community sport?
Do you currently consider the use of school sports facilities
out of school hours?
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What we will cover
1. Importance of community use – why bother?
2. A Local Authority view – Birmingham
3. Practice from Community Use Pilots
4. Including schools assets in wider strategic planning
5. Support from Sport England
6. Q & A plus Call to Action
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Importance of community use
– why bother?
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Note: Active Places Power Data January 2014. This includes all operational, under-construction and temporarily
closed facilities
Over 3,000 sports halls
Schools are
important
30,000 grass pitches
Almost 2,000 artificial grass pitches
1,460 swimming pools
State of Play 2014
• Over ?? of sporting facilities are on school sites* (77%
Sports Halls, 61% artificial grass pitches, 30% swimming
pools, 49% grass pitches)
• Approximately ?? of school facilities across England are
accessible for some form of community use
• By far the largest use is by sports clubs/community
associations which account for ?? of use
• Given pressures on local authorities, community use of
school sports facilities is vital
*The
figures quoted for school stock do not differentiate between secondary and primary. They exclude
Higher and Further Education.
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The biggest challenge is keeping school sports
facilities OPEN
Rapidly changing education landscape
• Academies Act 2010 & Educational Bill 2011
• Converter and Sponsored Academies
• Free schools/UTCs/Studio schools/FE Colleges
• High performing, diverse and dynamic
• Increased parental choice
Changing Local Authority role
• Commissioning
• Strategic overview
• Advocacy
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A Local Authority view - Birmingham
• School sites are key to providing supply of facilities
• Target new capital investment through strategic mapping
• Offers:
– Affordable LA offer to the hardest to reach communities
– Affordable School CU offer (mngt models & programming)
• Many school sites have CU planning/grant conditions
• Embed CU in whole school approach. E.g.
“To support schools to be at the heart of Birmingham’s inclusive
economy, wherever possible opening facilities for the benefit of
local communities”
Emma Leaman
Head of Education & Skills Infrastructure,
Birmingham City Council
https://db.tt/X7osPEzV
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Practice from Community Use Pilots
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National Pilot – Birmingham
• 2 year funding for local school access team
• Focussed support by Sport England Officers and Education Adviser
• High level advocacy with key stakeholders.
• Help us understand the importance of school facilities as part of wider
rationalisation agenda
• Raise profile of opportunity – for schools, for local communities, for
community sport
• Learning used in Core Cities
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OFSTED
Cost
Wear &
tear
Conversions
Strategic
approach
Common
concerns &
challenges
PFI
School
resistance
Site
Mngt
Safety &
security
Agreements
LA/School
subsidy
Legal
Quality
of
facilities
Dual use
School
priorities
Some lessons
• High level engagement with LA is vital
• Local context must be understood
• Strategic leadership
• Corporate working is fundamental
• Focus on benefits/added value and opportunities
• Opportunities to connect to initiatives & programmes
• ‘Sport’ to have a clear offer for schools
• Guidance and support for schools already exists
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Including schools assets in wider
strategic planning
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A strategic approach to provision
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Support from Sport England
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Sport England work on
Community Access to Schools
Through community access to schools work we are
engaging with schools, academies, local authorities
and partners to identify the barriers facing schools in
opening and keeping open their facilities to the
community, seeking practical solutions and
maximising opportunities.
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Our Direction of Travel
1.Setting strategic focus on keeping secondary school
sport facilities open
• Pooling intelligence & high level advocacy
2.Offering a range of Sport England support to
schools and LAs
• Interactive web resource – our ‘core offer’ to schools
• Focused support for strategically important sites
• Investment – existing funding streams and small
scale solicited
• Design guidance
3. Connecting in investors and operators
‘Use Our School’
Sport England’s core offer of support to all 3,500
secondary schools
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Solution to help with challenge of keeping schools open.
High profile resource for school audience.
Developed by the market for the market.
Advocates schools as heart of local communities.
Offers guidance across 12 topics.
Useful features (e.g. video clips, resources, case
studies, twitter)
• Supports schools in a range of scenarios
• Launch activity early 2015.
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Q&A plus Call to Action
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Call to action
1. Act as a supportive local strategic player for
community use of school sports facilities, drawing on
Sport England’s support
2. Use your role to help drive more strategic
coordination and solutions in your area
3. Interact with us - share knowledge and practice
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