Sport, Fitness, Community Recreation and Outdoor Recreation.
Service Skills Australia (the Industry Skills Council that covers off on Local Government Employed Sport and Recreation staff skills and training packages) has published the result of extensive consultation with the Sport, Fitness, Community Recreation and Outdoor Recreation communities over the last eighteen months.
Getting On Track For Change argues for a clear, co-ordinated approach to planning and developing the industry’s workforce, both paid and unpaid.
In response to the documents Australian Sport: The pathway to success and Australia: The healthiest country by 2020, Service Skills Australia has consulted with industry and drawn together a range of issues raised by these and other documents that affect the long-term outlook of the sport and recreation industry. These issues will need to be addressed in order to ensure that the sport and recreation workforce is adequately prepared to meet the challenges set for it by Australia and its governments. Incorporating concerns raised by the social inclusion, preventative health and mental health agendas, Getting on Track for Change compels industry leaders to co-operate, collaborate and champion the agenda of workforce development for sport and recreation.
Reflecting on recent transformations in the sport and recreation industry (as well as general workforce, social and consumer trends), Getting on Track for Change argues that workforce development—incorporating the key issues of leadership and improved support for volunteers—is the central avenue for adequately addressing and responding to the shifting landscape. Without a clear co-ordinated approach to planning and developing the sport and recreation workforce, the industry may be challenged by the prospect of increased competition for skilled labour—for both paid employees and unpaid volunteers.
The S.S.A news item -
http://www.serviceskills.com.au/featured/sport-and-recreation-workforce-development-strategy-released
Copy of the report -
http://www.serviceskills.com.au/sites/default/files/Change%20Plan%20formatted_final_0.pdf
(extract of advice from S.S.A web site)
ASU is the only Local Government Organisation that represents employees and the industry on the Service Skills Australia Sport and Recreation Advisory Committee (ASU Assistant National Secretray Greg Mclean represents the ASU)
Did you know that Local Government is Australia's largest provider of sport and recreation facilities and Australia's largest employer of sport and recreation staff
