What is the Community Sports Coach Scheme?
What is CSCS? The headline objective for the Community Sports Coach Scheme is to establish paid, qualified Community Sports Coaches working at local level and to increase the number and range of coaching opportunities according to strategic and local need. It is intended that the scheme will result in a step change in developing a career structure for coaching, an increase in the number of qualified coaches employed at a local level, quality standards for the recruitment, employment, management and development of coaches; managed, quality continuous professional development support for employed coaches and high-quality coaching with a focus on young people. The development of a pool of high-quality Community Sports Coaches will not only contribute to enhancing the quality of existing activity but also provide the opportunity to generate substantial new activity over time.
