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Here are some recommendations for a newly appointed FESCo based on work that has been undertaken by the pilot FE Colleges since they have been in post.

These are presented in line with the FESCo Blueprint for Action (Year 1):

• Developing relationships
• Understanding delivery
• Starting to deliver

These simple three steps will allow FESCO’s to establish themselves and their role and achieve an impact with young people, and key partners and stakeholders within their first year.

Developing relationships

• Meeting with PDM / Line manager to decide work programme / roles and responsibilities
• Be involved in School Sport Partnership meetings alongside PDMs and SSCos
• Being a recognisable member of staff in FE college with colleagues and students
• Meet with sports team and student services at FE College. Important to be an advocate of the FESCo role and that the relevant departments have an understanding of the outcomes of the programme.
• Meeting with key sports organisations e.g. County Sports Partnership / Sports Development / HEIs to get an understanding of their roles and vice versa.
• Liaising with community providers and establishing links e.g. leisure centres, private health clubs and local community sports clubs
  

Understanding delivery

• Developing a set of questions for an audit in order to get some baseline information of current sports provision and what the students would like to do. In the forseeable future the Institute of Youth Sport Impact Study will provide the core questions for FESCo’s to develop a baseline and feed data into a national baselining exercise.
• Understanding current enrichment activities, competitions that the college enter, volunteering opportunities, facilities on college site and who currently organises activities
• Asking students what they would like to be offered as part of their enrichment programme and what sort of activities they would like to do and when (e.g. if they would like intra-mural competitions). As a result some of the pilot FE colleges are introducing as many as 12 new activities from September that have been identified from the results of the questionnaire.
• Exploring the most effective ways of capturing the “student voice” e.g. Are you going to have a sample group of students, complete online through programme such as moodle, paper version via tutor groups? How are you going to analyse the results?
• Liaise with the PDM and the Local Authority Sports Development team to find out information about community provision and who could be potential partners
• Identifying initial priorities for your action plan? How will this fit into the School Sport Partnership Evaluation & priorities (EPD) document and the college sports development plan?

Starting to deliver

• Setting up recreational activities for students e.g. badminton (come and play)
• Organising taster sessions / one-off events in activities such as martial arts and football for students in other departments (sport students not included)
• Developing further enrichment activities on and off college site either at lunchtimes or after college e.g. judo at local health club
• Researching the possibilities of organising intra-mural competitions between different faculties (excluding sport) that will be held off college site. The activities have been decided based on results from the questionnaire. It is hoped that these will run for the whole year either during lunchtimes or immediately after college
• Initiating projects at FE college such as Health Awareness Week
• Creating links with local HEI – involvement of FE students in multi-sport days
• Projects with SSP e.g. assisting with school festivals
• Running intensive leadership courses for a week for students and then finding them volunteer placements in schools or the community
• Engaging in specific NGB leadership training
• Organising  and running festivals at schools e.g. extreme golf
• Sourcing and accessing Extending Activities funding (speak to PDM / CSP / SDO) to run a variety of alternative programmes for students e.g. trampolining, archery, fencing, orienteering and kayaking. These are being established as a result of feedback from the students.
• Liaising with local Sports Development team to run 10 week blocks of activity (boxing, fencing and karate) by coaches / instructors from the local club on the college site. By establishing a college – club link, it is hoped that students will then become a member of one of these community sports clubs.
• FE students being trained and then involved in volunteering and officiating at the UK School Games in Bath and Bristol in August 2008
• Sourcing and developing resources and equipment for ALL students to have access to.
• Developing a website and forum for students

If you have other examples of how you have addressed the three areas of the blueprint, please email: jayne.molyneux@youthsporttrust.org