For Sports » Events Section » Workforce and Mentoring Development Clinic UKCC Clinic  - Workforce Development and Mentoring Development Date: Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th November Location: Burleigh Court, Loughborough All 31 UKCC sports were invited to this series of clinics. Wednesday 9th concentrated on "Developing a high quality coach education workforce for the UKCC" and time was dedicated to helping sports recognise what they need to do to develop their recruitment, support and development plans for their coach education workforces. The UKCC recognises that the development of an individual learner is a process over time supported by a number of experiences – products, training events, people support, practical delivery etc.  In order to upskill and quality assure the coach education workforce, training provision needs to be addressed as a whole. With this in mind sports coach UK communicated the current review of its services which it has undertook to ensure they remain of the highest quality ensuring the training of coaches to the highest calibre. This was followed by advice on how a sport can self audit its existing workforce and the documentation to assess tutors was provided too. Other topics covered included the new license agreements and a draft contract and full details of both the Coach Educator training and Coach Assessor training as well as how these can be upgraded to certified qualifications. sports coach UK welcomed a number of speakers on the day who spoke about their own experiences of UKCC and workforce development and what had been learned along the way in an open and informative session. We would like to thank Spencer Moore from the Amateur Swimming Association, Evan Crawford from the Rugby Football Union and Helen Bushell from England Netball for contributing on these issues. We would also like to thank Gill Cummings-Bell from the fitness industry who spoke about the register and its development and issues. You can read the document supplied on the day here Workforce Development Guidance - Nov 05.doc   The second day of this event dealt with Mentoring The outline for the day was to provide opportunities for NGBs to share good practice and identify key principles that need to be addressed when developing a mentoring programme or for providing mentoring opportunities to their performers.  Research questions were used to provide a focus for NGBs to consider how they might design and maintain mentoring within their sport. The following presentations kindly supplied by Amateur Rowing Association member Kate O' Sullivan and sports coach UK Coach Development Officer Scott Grace give case study examples of experience in developing coach mentors. Mentoring ST.ppt Mentoring - Scott Grace.ppt