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Aim
Our aim is:
“To grow the attractiveness of working in the sport and physical activity sector and ensure customers and consumers in Wales have an excellent experience.”
We will do this by:
- Ensuring the Welsh Professional Development Board members represent the whole sector, allowing us to look at sector workforce development through multiple lenses.
- Aligning our aims and ambitions with ‘The Vision for Sport’ by working to diversify and support a more inclusive workforce.
- Working with CIMSPA to develop a service that delivers outcomes based on the needs of the Welsh sport and physical activity sector.
- Publishing an annual operational plan that will state the collective aims of the Wales WPDB and CIMSPA. This will highlight key achievements and outcomes as well as learning and recommendations.
- Highlighting the importance of the sport and physical activity sector on the health and wellbeing of Wales and the people behind its impact.
- Developing comprehensive resources of data and insight to inform decision making at a local and national level.
- Striving to embed quality and clear pathways in an education system fit for purpose throughout an individual’s career.
- Create a sector that has inclusivity running through its veins to ensure the sector is an attractive career option for everyone in Wales.
- Changing the mindset of the way the workforce in Wales see themselves and their job roles.
- Encouraging local sport and physical activity ecosystems to collaborate through local skills accountability boards.
Priorities
The Welsh Workforce Professional Development Board has nine priority areas:
- Data and insight
- Leadership and management
- An efficient Welsh education system
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Promotion of the availability of and opportunity to utilise the Welsh language
- Health and wellbeing
- Raising awareness
- Advocacy and lobbying
- Recognition and professionalism
