Lesson video

Hi there.

Welcome to your lesson.

Today's lesson is on the DCMS Sport, England and National Governing Bodies.

And it's part of the social cultural influences and the commercialisation unit of your GCSEP.

My name's MS. Hacking and I'm really looking forward to being your teacher today.

By the end of today's lesson, I'm hoping that we can all explain the roles of the DCMS, Sport England and National Governing Bodies so that we know how they support sports and physical activity here in the UK.

Our keywords DCMS stands for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and is a government agency responsible for creating policies.

Sport England is a non-departmental public body that works for the DCMS or the government to build the foundations of community sport.

NGBs are National Governing Bodies that organisations that govern their sport on a national level and they manage the rules and regulations of the sport.

And an example of an NGB is England Netball, the NGB that is responsible for netball in England, England Netball.

Grassroots means that sport is the local level of sport, is often where beginners are involved and it focuses on community participation.

You may wish to pause a video and jot down those definitions to help you in today's lesson.

Today's lesson is going to be split into three sections.

In the first section, we're going to explain the roles of the department for DCMS. In the second part of the session, we're gonna look at the role of Sports England and hopefully be able to explain it by the end of the lesson.

And in the final part of the lesson, we're going to explain the role of NGBs or National Governing Bodies and see how they support sports and physical activity here in the UK.

Let's get started.

So the following organisations encourage and support participation in physical activity and sport in the UK.

So the Department for Digital, Culture of Media and Sport, Sport England, and National Governing Bodies.

I wonder if you can think of anything that these organisations might do to encourage and support participation in physical activity.

You may wish to pause a video now and just have a little chat or write down any things, any roles that you think each one of these organisations might do to support sport and physical activity in the UK.

So let's start by talking about the DCMS, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

This is run by the government.

So this is run by the government to help promote sports and physical activity in the UK.

The DCMS provide funding to Sport England alongside the National lottery.

So funding means money.

So the DCMS, the government, provide money into sports and physical activity to help ensure that the population is active and therefore healthy.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport helps to drive growth and promote the UK abroad.

So not only does it fund community projects and fund sport here in the UK, it helps to put the UK on the map for participating in more sport.

By providing funding and legislation, so legislation means the rules and the safeguarding measures that the sport needs to abide by to ensure that everyone remains safe.

It it allows more fairness for the sport to be played as well.

Not only is it keeping everyone safe, but it ensures that sport can be played fairly and it can be in comparison to other countries around the world as well.

So that when it comes to big competitions and tournaments, we are all at the same point and we are all able to compete and play equally and fairly.

A key responsibility of the DCMS is to support and promote sports at home and abroad through a number of different ways.

They encourage global participation in sports.

So having legislation where there's a pathway for people that are potentially wanting to compete at sport around the world, the DCMS putting legislations and funding and support in order to allow that to happen.

They host and organise and fund major international sporting events.

So you might have heard about the 2012 Olympics that were held in London and hosted by England.

The DCMS will have put a lot of funding and organisation into this event to ensure that London was shown in the best possible light for this major sporting event that was seen by people all around the world.

The DCMS is also responsible for ensuring the UK's global reputation for sporting excellence.

So again, ensuring that athletes can compete at a level that is recognised internationally, but also in providing opportunities for athletes to go and compete in other competitions around the world to ensure that England or the UK, Scotland, Wales.

So we are supporting our nation to be shown in the best light and to show that we also can compete as one of the world's greatest champions as well.

By promoting sport, the DCMS helps to boost tourism.

So for example, with the Olympics in the 2012, the one that we hosted, we were able to get a lot of people from around the world to come and visit London due to wanting to watch the Olympics.

And while they're there, they might then also explore some more of the country.

So it helps to bring in money and it increases international investment.

So for example, if there are a lot of high quality pathways for certain sports in England, then athletes from around the world may also choose to come.

And so they may come over here to study, for example at university because not only will they get great education, but they might have that opportunity to access some really high quality coaching for their specific sport as well.

It also helps us support diplomatic relations in terms of politics and in terms of providing that great sport for all and common ground with other countries and that place to be celebrated internationally.

All these athletes and something that everyone has in common to sort of provide that really nice environment when perhaps there are other tensions around the world, sport is a good thing to bring everyone together and to support with the diplomatic relations.

It also helps to contribute to health and wellbeing of the population.

We know all the benefits of taking part in exercise and physical activity.

And by promoting sport the DCMS helped to raise the profile of the health of the population and to make sure that sport and physical activity are really a priority for everyone so that we can all live a healthy, active longer life as well.

Okay, let's have a go to check.

True or false? A responsibility of the DCMS is to host major international sporting events.

Yeah, that's right.

It's true.

The London 2012 Olympics was an example of the major international sporting event that the DCMS helped to host.

You might be able to think of some other examples too.

Well done if you got that right.

Okay, now it's your turn for a practise task.

For the first part of the task, I'd like you to tell me what does DCMS stand for? And for the second part of the task, I'd like you to suggest two reasons why the DCMS promotes the UK through sport.

You may wish to pause the video now in order to give yourself time to write down your answer.

Good luck.

Okay, for the first part of the task you are asked to tell me what the DCMS stood for.

So the DCMS stands for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

Well done if you remembered that.

For the second part of the task you are asked to suggest two reasons why the DCMS promotes the UK through sport.

You may have said that it boosts tourism, it increases international investment, it supports diplomatic presentations and it contributes to health and wellbeing of the population.

So well done if you identified two of those.

Okay, let's move on to the second part of the lesson.

We're now going to look at explaining the role of Sport England.

Sport England is a public body that helps people in communities build a lasting habit of participating in sports.

Sport England's goal is to make sports accessible to everyone and encourage regular physical activity contributing to healthier and more active lifestyles.

Sport England provides a lot of funding to priority groups to people that may not have that opportunity to access sport easily.

And Sport England is all about ensuring that everyone is involved in physical activity so that everyone can have those health benefits.

Sport England provides funding and resources to support a range of sports at all levels.

So grassroots, remember that was one of our keywords.

Grassroots means the community sport, the sport that everyone can join.

The low level beginner level sport that people often get into a sport or physical activity at the grassroots level, but sometimes can work their way up through the system and actually end up being a really competitive elite performer.

But it's grassroots normally where it is started.

So Sport England helps at grassroots by providing classes and sessions.

So it could be providing funding, it could be providing coaching, it could be providing taster sessions to allow more people to access a sport at that beginner level.

It then also provides funding for community projects.

So if certain communities want a certain sport, then they can speak to Sport England and apply for funding in order to run that sport in their community.

And then they also sponsor competitions and events.

So again, we're coming more towards the elite end of the spectrum now.

However, there will still be competitions where Sport England provide that funding to allow people in that grassroots level who want to be a bit more competitive to begin to compete and see what it's like to play at a more competitive level.

Therefore, usually at these kind of competitions and events there are talent identification and development programmes and these will help channel certain athletes and individuals who may have joined sport or physical activity at grassroots level but are enjoying it and are really demonstrating really high ability.

They may go on to a development programme to really push them further with high level coaching and opportunities to compete at a higher level so that they could maybe become an elite performer in that sport, which they would then get to by performing in high performance training centres.

So if we had a footballer for example, who maybe had joined a local team, a local community, had the opportunity to play in some football competitions maybe through school or maybe through one of their local clubs and they got spotted by a development programme, talent identification scout and they were sort of supported to go into a high performance training centre in order to improve their skills and improve their ability to give them more of an opportunity to play sport at that elite level and maybe get picked for one of the teams in the Premier League for example.

So that is how Sport England can provide funding and resources to support sport at all levels.

So not just at elite level but also at grassroots level as well.

Okay, let's have a go to check.

What is Sport England's goal? Is it A, to only provide sport for elite athletes? Is it B, to only provide support for grassroots sport? Is it C, to make sport accessible to everyone? Or is it D, to ensure the UK's global reputation for sporting excellence? Yeah, that's right.

It's C, to make sport accessible to everyone.

Sport England wants everyone involved in sport from elite athletes yes, but also at grassroots level as well.

Well done if you got that right.

Okay, so in order to ensure that everyone has that opportunity to take part in sport, Sport England often run campaigns and initiatives to focus on perhaps priority groups or people that are not accessing sport as much as other people.

And some of these campaigns include This Girl Can.

So the Sport England data that came out, it shows that males or men are more active than females or girls.

So in order to try and target this and to change maybe the data, what the data is suggesting, Sport England put a lot of funding and promotion and campaigning into a campaign called This Girl Can, which you may have seen, you may have heard about.

In this campaign, it demonstrates lots of different positive role models of women in sports doing different sports to try and promote and support more girls and women to be active to close that gender gap in sport.

There's also a campaign called We Are Undefeatable, which is supporting people that have long-term health conditions to access sport.

And this might be by providing education or by providing more classes or opportunities in a safe environment for them to be active without them feeling like there's a stigma or that it's going to damage their health as well.

So We Are Undefeatable is a campaign that Sport England run to support those people.

Play Their Way is to support children being more physically active and helping children and coaches, particularly making the coaching sessions and activities more children centred and more children led so that children are enjoying them more and therefore more likely to want to stay in physical activity and stay in sport and continue to do it.

And the final one was the campaign called Get Moving, which is supporting new parents who might not have as much time to go and be active themselves individually but Get Moving promotes about ways you could get moving with your child or with your baby to ensure that you are not missing out on other health benefits or physical activity when perhaps you don't have as much time.

So these are just some examples of the campaigns run by Sport England.

For the first part I'd like you to complete the sentence to outline Sport England's Aim.

Sport England is a public body that helps people in communities build up.

And for the second part I'd like you to answer this question, Sofia enjoys break dancing.

How could Sport England provide the opportunity for Sofia to experience more break dancing? You may wish to pause a video now to give yourself time to write the answer.

Okay so for the first part of the task you are asked to complete the sentence to outline Sport England's aim? Sport England is a public body that helps people in communities build a lasting habit of participating in sport would be a good example of how you could have finished that sentence, but you needed to have talked about how Sport England wants everyone to have that happy, healthy, active lifestyle and therefore that habit is really important.

Well done if you got that right.

Second part of the task you are asked, Sofia enjoys break dancing at school.

How could Sport England provide the opportunity for more people to experience and develop their break dancing? You might have said Sport England could support local community centres or youth clubs by offering break dancing workshops with experienced instructors and sponsoring local events or competitions.

Additionally, they could provide talent identification and elite development programmes for those with a potential to compete at a high level, including representing the country in break dancing at the Olympics.

Because we know now that break dancing is a part of the Olympic sports that actually there should therefore be a talent pathway in identifying elite performers.

And this would come from those local grassroots community centres and youth clubs and clubs of break dancing at that grassroots level.

So Sport England, by providing all these opportunities, Sofia could join a local club, a local break dancing club, and therefore enter competitions and hopefully get scouted or spotted by talent identification to then support her maybe if she was good enough to compete for England in one of the Olympic competitions or in a worldwide break dancing competition.

Well done if you remembered all of those key parts.

Okay, we're now onto the final part of today's lesson.

Where we're going to explain and look at the role of NGBs.

I wonder if you can remember what NGB stood for? That's right, NGB stands for National Governing Bodies and they are independent organisations that govern their own individual sport.

So they're responsible for developing sport at a national level.

So they want to develop the opportunity for sport to be played nationally and internationally.

So that might be creating competitions, creating teams, having a national team, a team that represents England for example, and a team that can compete at other events around the world.

Not only is it responsible for the elite performers in their sport, but it's also responsible for providing the grassroots opportunities in getting people involved in their sport in the first place.

Now without those grassroots opportunities, there wouldn't be as many athletes that get to that top level of sport.

So it's equally important to be supporting a grassroots level as it is the elite level.

Like we talked about with Sport England, the National Governing Bodies will create elite performers pathways in their individual sport.

So working out how they are going to identify the talent that are in the grassroots programmes and how they can therefore support them to become elite performers.

They're also responsible for managing the rules and regulations of their sport and they are the ones that decide on how a sport is played and what rules need to be followed and if there are any rule changes, for example.

They also access funding from Sport England specifically to support the growth development and activity levels within their sport.

I wonder if you can think of any examples of National Governing Bodies, maybe for your sport in particular.

Here are some examples of National Governing Bodies that you may have heard of or may not have heard of.

For every sport there will be a National Governing Body 'cause there has to be 'cause they are the one that are controlling the rules and the regulations and the legislation surrounding that specific sport.

So one that we've talked about in our keywords is England Netball, but you may have also heard of UK athletics or British gymnastics.

There are many different National Governing Bodies.

I advise you to go on the internet and have a look at who is your national governing body for the sports that you like to play.

Okay, let's have a go to check.

Which of the following would have responsibility for developing athletics at a national level? Is it the DCMS? Is it Sport England? Is it Athletics GB or is it UK Athletics? That's right.

It's UK Athletics.

They are the national governing body for the athletics.

Well done if you got that right.

Okay, for this practise task, I would like you to complete the table.

In the first part of the table, I'd like you to fill in the missing words to identify the roles of National Governing Bodies as a whole.

And in the second side of the table, I would like you to write down as many different National Governing Bodies examples as you can.

You may wish to pause a video now to give you time to write your answer.

Okay so the missing words included for the roles of the national governing body, developing sport at a national level, providing grassroots opportunities, creating elite performance pathways, managing rules and regulations of their sport, their individual sport, accessing funding from Sport England.

And we remember that funding means accessing money to be able to provide those more opportunities.

So maybe pay for coaches or maybe pay for facilities or pay for equipment to enable community projects to be run effectively.

And examples of National Governing Bodies.

You could have had lots of different examples here, but here are some that I put that you might have also included.

So UK Athletics, England Netball, Swim England, The Football Association or the FA on Boccia UK.

So well done if you've got some of those written down.

Okay, I think that leaves us just enough time to summarise today's lesson.

So these organisations encourage and support participation in physical activity and sport in the UK.

They are the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and it creates policies to make sport fair and safe and to promote the UK through sport on a global level around the world.

Sports England provide funding and resources to support sport from grassroots to elite performance.

And National Governing Bodies or NGBs are organisations that govern their sports on a national level from grassroots to elite performance while managing rules and regulation of their sport.

Well done today.

You worked really hard.

I hope that you'll be able to remember each of the three types of organisations and how they really help to promote sport and physical activity in the UK.

I'll see you again soon.