What do the current UKCC changes to coaching qualifications mean for coaches?
The UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC) is a standardisation of sport specific coaching qualifications to a nationally agreed framework. The standardisation will ensure a higher quality of coach education across sports, it will professionalise the role of a coach and raise the profile of coaching. To the average coach this means that you will be able to show nationally recognised qualifications to potential employers and transferable core skills will mean it will become easier to move between sports as a coach. Sports are currently transferring their awards over to the new standardised system and one effect of UKCC has been to increase course cost, which explains the increases in some of our course costs. Each sport is establishing a method of accrediting or upskilling previously qualified coaches to the new framework. For further information visit www.sportscoachuk.
