While the athletes are doing benchmarking and test events prior to the season starting properly, the coaches have been exercising their brains & ensuring they meet their duty of care for the athletes they support, as well as doing conferences, workshops & webinars to complement or enhance their skills.

Scott recently completed the World Triathlon Coach re-validation process.Both Scott & Di attended the Witherslack Group webinar discussing neurodiversity & PICA and Di has also been involved with the Online Safety in Sports Clubs, a South West forum event where Dr Emma Kavanagh was one of the speakers. Di also attended Sports Resolutions webinar covering the Three Stages of Case Management, considering how to manage low level safeguarding concerns in sports.

This is not about the coaches  “badge collecting” but to show the athletes that we support that we are keeping up to date with our certification, reinforcing our Duty to Care & showing the athletes that we continue to challenge ourselves.

Always check out your coaches qualifications, insurance & CPD.