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<p>Government’s sport strategy ‘Sporting Future’, published in December 2015, noted
that just 5.5% of elite coaches were from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds,
demonstrating that high performance coaching was not drawing its talent from the widest
pool available. It commissioned UK Sport to review what steps could be taken to remove
barriers to minority groups (and women) progressing into high performance coaching
roles with a view to diversifying the talent pool and ultimately improving overall
performance.</p><p> </p><p>UK Sport has since put a number of activities and processes
in place to help increase the number of high quality opportunities for BAME coaches.
For example their Elite Coaching Team works with role models to encourage other coaches
to apply for relevant roles, and they work with Sporting Equals on data relating to
BAME people, which forms part of the Sporting Equals' Leaderboard National Steering
Group. One of the aims of this group is to develop and share toolkits that sports
can use to help diversify their recruitment, and in particular recruit more BAME staff.
UK Sport also use results from the sport-wide Culture Health Check to analyse emerging
trends around equality and diversity issues, and they work closely with the Sports
Councils’ Equity Group with Home Country Sports Councils to develop consistent approaches
to equality and opportunities with national governing bodies.</p>
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