1. To support the growth and retention of new and existing players and workforce by helping people understand how they can make their club or league accessible to everyone e.g. women and girls, disabled people, ethnic minorities and emerging communities.
2. To help people involved in football identify what language or behaviour is offensive, insulting and abusive e.g. racist, homophobic, sexist or abuse relating to disability. This supports the RESPECT programme by making clear, what is and what isn't acceptable and what action people can take if they experience something that is offensive, insulting or abusive.
The equality courses have been designed to:
- Raise awareness of barriers to inclusion
- Generate ideas to address challenges
- Encourage inclusion by under-represented groups
- Develop positive action/interventions/programmes to address under-representation
- Identify offensive, insulting and abusive language and behaviour
- Help people to appreciate differences and similarities
This is not about:
- Political correctness or extreme over-the-top measures
- Telling people what they can and can't say
- Positive discrimination
Who are they aimed at?
The workshops are aimed at anyone involved running football in Counties, Districts, Leagues and Clubs e.g. administrators at county, district, league and club level; volunteers; parents, coaches, referees, managers and players i.e. you!
2010 Course Schedule
Dates to be advised.
A booking form can be downloaded from related documents to the right of this page.