Overall coaching policy and the BCU system of qualifications for the coaching of paddlesports is agreed jointly by the four associations' coaching panels that make up BCU Coaching UK – the Canoe Association of Northern Ireland, the Scottish Canoe Association, the Welsh Canoe Association and the English Coaching Panel.
The BCU UK Coaching Management Committee (UKCMC) comes together three times a year to manage and develop overall coaching business. The committee has ten voting members in total. The make up of the committee is federal and voting follows the 5/2/2/1 federal voting system. Delegates on the BCU UK Coaching Committee are nominated from the National Association Coaching and Competitions Committee.
Next UKCMC meeting dates are: 13th June and 3rd October 2010
UKCMC Chair
Dave Rossetter
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Full Time Support officer
Mike Devlin
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Details of current serving members;
The National Association Coaching and Competitions Committees meet at times between the UK meetings to ensure that new policy and revisions to existing policy are agreed after having had time to be considered by each national associations. In this way, final policy should reflect the needs of each of the national associations.
BCU Coaching UK Aims:
BCU Coaching UK is committed to providing clear, effective and validated access to its coaching awards to all who seek to coach others in paddlesport activities. It aims to provide coaches with opportunities to develop core skills via a coach education and training programme linked to a well signed development / performance pathway.We are committed to quality coaching and the provision of ongoing coach education and continued personal development. Performance standards and performer development models ensure an integrated and networked approach to providing well defined pathways to paddler / coach performance right across the performance continuum.
Once registered with BCU Coaching UK coaches, aspirant and qualified have immediate and updated access to materials outlining all qualification specifications and requirements. A wide range of guidance notes for training and assessment opportunities are provided along with an extensive range of additional support materials, so important to modern coaches working within the infrastructure of a governing body i.e. Coaches Code of Ethics and Duty of Care, Child Protection and Screening Volunteers Information, Injury Prevention In Paddlesport, Insurance Guidelines, Guidelines for Centres and Authorities etc.
BCU Coaching UK has sought to put in place, and maintain, an administrative system that allows all administrative procedures associated with its range of qualification courses to be effectively and efficiently dealt with, ensuring clear separation between awarding and delivery functions. This system allows coaches access to a register of coaches and provides an audit trail to a coaches, coaching background, training and ongoing personal development. All details in respect of fee structures, costs and resources available for all qualification training and awards are regularly updated and are made accessible to coaches and centres via regular bulletins, magazines, publications and the web.
BCU Coaching UK provides and requires its coach education centres to attend regular workshops and updates on technical and procedural developments within paddlesport, coach education and in respect of legal matters. All coach education centres receive regular update bulletins to keep them abreast of developments and to inform them of dates of workshops and clinics. Both workshops and bulletins provide opportunities for consultation and direct communication between BCU coaching UK and its coach educators.
BCU Coaching UK has a fully published and accessible formal complaints procedure which can be invoked by all Coaching Service participants. BCU Coaching UK, as the awarding body of coaching qualifications in paddlesport, has put in place a number of mechanisms for the measuring of its quality provision and to check that it has met its commitments to coaches and Centres. While the foremost of these are its quality assurance programme and centre approval programme and workshops, it also seeks regular feedback from all involved in the provision of coaching awards via a range of effective feedback forms (from coaches to centres and from centres to BCU Coaching UK) and monitoring visits and phone calls. The BCU Coaching UK Quality Assurance Programme and the Centre Approval Programme and workshops provide a direct mechanism for centres and coach educators to be monitored and measured against the UK standard.