Non-protected
Equality impact assessment
Name of policy: sportscotland investment principles
Introduction
Lead officer
Penelope Peacock
Others involved in the assessment
John Lunn, Jacqueline Lynn, Chris Robison, Michelle Borland, Shirley Campbell
Partnership and Planning Programme Board
Date(s) of assessment
November 25, 2013
Description of policy
Background
The sportscotland investment principles 2011-15 outline the principles, outcomes and processes for investing
in local authorities and Scottish governing bodies of sport.
The investment principles are currently being reviewed. This impact assessment is retrospective but will help to
inform the current review. The review is being carried out to ensure that the principles are better aligned to our
Corporate Plan and the changes we want to see. In general, the essence of the principles will not change.
The previous equality impact assessment relevant to this policy was the ‘Scottish Governing Body Investment
Strategy’ in 2007.
Purpose and outcomes
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The investment principles 2011-15 outline sportscotlands approach to making investment decisions. The
principles guide our investment decisions and outline the outcomes we aim to achieve and the investment
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process that we use.
The investment principles are:
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Holistic approach
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Investment against plans
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Outcome focused
Governing body outcomes are measured against performance, development, workforce and governance. For
local authorities investment is aimed at enhancing existing local provision. The headline outcomes are to
increase opportunities for participation in sport within schools and the community and to increase the workforce
that is delivering those opportunities.
How it links to sportscotland corporate
and business plans
sportscotland’s investment principles connect to a number of programmes in the 2011-15 corporate plan and
key activities in the 2013-15 business plan.
Local authorities
School sport
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A1 - Lead and manage the Active Schools Network to build capacity, increase quality opportunities, and
motivate and inspire children and young people to participate.
Projects include: Active Schools (Staffing and programme)
A2 - Work with key partners in an integrated way to deliver physical education, physical activity and
sport.
Projects include: Physical education (programme), Swimming top-up
Club sport
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B1 - Lead the development of a network of community sport hubs, working towards a target of 150 hubs
in the right places with the right people to achieve maximum impact.
Projects include: Community sport hubs (Staffing and programme)
People
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D1: Plan, support, engage, and recognise and raise the profile of the sporting workforce and improve
deployment across the sport system.
Projects include: Positive Coaching Scotland
Governing bodies
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Club sport
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B2 - Provide leadership and support on club development, working with partners to grow membership,
talent, capacity and improve the quality of sporting experiences for people in clubs.
Projects include: SGB club investment (development staffing and programmes)
Performance sport
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C1: Provide strategic direction and investment for performance programmes to achieve shared
performance goals. Manage our in-house programmes effectively and in close partnership with Scottish
governing bodies of sport to achieve agreed performance outcomes.
Projects include: Performance sport programmes (Performance staffing and programmes)
People
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D1: Plan, support, engage, and recognise and raise the profile of the sporting workforce and improve
deployment across the sport system.
Projects include: SGB coaching & volunteering planning and investment (Coaching staffing and
programme, and UKCC)
Partnerships and planning
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How we intend to implement the policy
F1: Provide investment, training and support to key partners to ensure strong foundations for Scotland’s
sporting system.
Projects include: SGB planning and investment (Strong partners staffing and programme)
We invest in local authorities and governing bodies to deliver against agreed targets aligned to the outcomes in
the investment principles. The investment principles ensure that our partners are delivering robust plans that are
strategically linked to our corporate plan.
Partnership managers work with local authorities to develop and deliver strategic and integrated plans and
manage direct investment into programmes (such as Active Schools, Community Sports Hubs etc.).
The investment principles are implemented through the investment and review process for local authorities and
governing bodies of sport. The investment principles make it clear that investment is not an entitlement and
progress against agreed outcomes is reviewed.
Investment levels are agreed in advance to ensure that effective planning can take place. Review panels, held
annually, consider the detailed investment for each SGB and LA.
All investment is subject to approval by the senior management team. Investment over one million pounds, or
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investment that carries a high level of risk is taken to the sportscotland Board for approval.
Governing bodies are reviewed every 12months and in detail every four years, with an interim review every two
years. The cycle of review is set based upon the performance cycle for those Olympic, Paralympic and
Commonwealth sports and the strategic planning cycle for other sports. The review cycle is outlined in the
current draft SGB Investment Framework.
Local authority investment is reviewed bi-annually. Six month expenditure trackers are completed with partners
and submitted to demonstrate actual spend of sportscotland financial investment against what has
beenallocated. This is broken down into specific programme funded areas. Any unspent allocated investment is
then reconciled so that allocation of monies is aligned wih the Investment Agreement and the agreed targets
and outcomes within this.
Who policy is likely to impact on and how
Who will the policy benefit (i.e. who is the
customer?)
The initial impact of the policy is on our partners; governing bodies and local authorities. The work our partners
do will benefit the sporting community across Scotland.
Governing bodies work directly with their members. Members might not always be representative of the wider
population that might participate in a sport and in some instances members are clubs rather than individuals.
The key areas of investment into governing bodies are coaching, staffing, development and performance.
Local authorities work to deliver sport in their local communities. The main focus of our investment into local
authorities is on school sport and club sport.
Is it designed to impact on one/some/all
people who share a protected
characteristic? How?
The policy is not designed to have an intended to impact on any particular protected characteristic.
How will/are different customers involved
in development and roll out of policy? If
no involvement mechanism how will
needs be identified and addressed?
The investment principles were drafted internally. The draft was shared with the COO (Chief Operating Officers,
governing bodies of sport) group for comment and facilitated discussion.
Partnership working is central to the principles and implementation of the policy. Partners are play a role in
determining plans and shared outcomes which are delivered sing sportscotland (and local partner) investment.
Partners are consulted and provided with opportunities to influence future programmes and projects and their
associated outcomes.
Table 1
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Review of equality considerations in relation to the outcomes of the Investment Principles
All – evidence overview
What do we know about equalities
within the context of the outcomes?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
What could we do to reduce any
negative impacts, maximise positive
impacts and ensure quality information?
Athlete selection is based purely on
performance. Investment is directed at
performance programmes and athletes
linked to medal potential.
The Equality Impact Assessment action
plan includes an action to develop an
impact assessment against the
performance sport programme and a
literature review. This assessment
should help to gather evidence and
highlight any gaps or oversights.
What gaps exist?
Governing bodies Performance
Governing bodies will have records of
athletes that receive investment from
the sportscotland Institute for Sport.
There is no aggregated equalities data,
and records may vary between sports.
There is no high level national data on
how protected characteristics are
represented in elite sport apart from
disability.
An equality evidence review on
performance sport is currently being
undertaken, this should help us
understand the data better.
Governing bodies Development
Equality Standard for Sport
Equality Standard for Sport
Alongside other governance
requirements governing bodies of sport
are required to engage with the Equality
Standard for Sport dependent upon
their level of investment and
infrastructure.
The Equality Standard for Sport will
impact positively on people who share
protected characteristics.
The Standard supports governing
bodies of sport to consider and engage
with equality, both within their internal
structure and processes, and in the
form of developing actions and
initiatives which encourage increased
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The potential impact is neither positive
nor negative. The impact needs to be
assessed against membership and
participation, which is what widens the
talent pool and increases opportunity for
people who share protected
characteristics to become involved in
sport.
As not all sports will reach the same
level of the Standard, this could impact
negatively on people who share
protected characteristics as some
sports may not be targeting groups that
are currently underrepresented in their
membership.
The Standard does not require SGBs to
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Some actions are already in place to
address any negative impact, the
additional support that governing bodies
have access to is a key component of
this.
Currently sportscotland has developed
partnerships with equalities groups for
LGBT and BME groups, we also invest
in Scottish Disability Sport who deliver
inclusion training and work with a large
number of SGBs on their disability
initiatives. There is no organisation in
Scotland at the moment that supports
All – evidence overview
What do we know about equalities
within the context of the outcomes?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
What could we do to reduce any
negative impacts, maximise positive
impacts and ensure quality information?
consider all protected characteristics in
their action plan until the Advanced
level of the Standard, although they are
encouraged to do so. As the Standard
is progressive by its nature, it would not
be feasible for sports to put in place
initiatives for all strands and in most
instances they will not have the
resources and infrastructure to do this.
The Standard encourages governing
bodies to use their equalities data to
develop their action plans.
the needs of older people and women.
Looking into ways of sharing best
practice in these areas would be of
benefit.
What gaps exist?
equality and diversity in membership
and participation as well as staff,
volunteers, coaches and board
members.
The Standard is a four staged process
and governing bodies are required to
complete a level of the Standard based
upon their level of investment (and
hence the size and infrastructure of
their organisation).
Governing bodies of sport who have
achieved the Foundation level of the
Standard will have equality data on their
staff and board, again the sample size
is variable.
Governing bodies of sport who have
achieved Preliminary level of the
Standard will have equality data on their
membership but the sample size is
variable.
Additional support (such as training
etc.) is open to all SGBs and even
governing bodies who only complete
foundation level may still have excellent
positive action initiatives in place and
attend training, seminars and engage
equalities partners to support their work.
This data will be reported on internally,
but this data is not aggregated
nationally or collected by sportscotland.
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Continuing to develop the SGB training
programme to include workshops
specific to protected characteristics.
Continuing to provide access to tools
and resources through the Equality in
Sport website in partnership with the
other home country sport councils and
continue to host an equalities seminar
every two years
Continue to work with SGBs, via the
Standard, to develop robust action
plans for equality and to increase the
response rates on their equalities
monitoring.
Better utilise the young people’s sport
panel for governing bodies who require
support or the perspective of young
people when developing their
strategies.
At this stage, the equality audit template
that is shared with SGBs does not
include a question on Transgender
based on guidance from the Scottish
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Other ways to increase the positive
impacts include:
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(given data protection requirements) of
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All – evidence overview
What do we know about equalities
within the context of the outcomes?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
What could we do to reduce any
negative impacts, maximise positive
impacts and ensure quality information?
What gaps exist?
Transgender Alliance).
collecting equalities data on
membership, staff and board at a
national level.
SGBs have been given guidance on
equality monitoring U16’s. This
guidance does not advise to include a
question on sexual orientation. The
SMT approval paper and the guidance
can both be found on share point.
Share best practice, anecdotally there is
some great equalities work going on in
SGBs and this could be shared.
As part of the wider support package for
the Equality Standard, governing bodies
have access to equalities training,
toolkits and templates for developing
equalities and a dedicated website.
sportscotland has also developed
positive working relationships with
organisations that represent the needs
of people who share characteristics and
governing bodies have access to these
organisations for support.
Governing
Workforce
bodies
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There is very little data on the number
of coaches in Scotland, and as a result
of this, a lack of information on how
people who share protected
characteristics are represented in the
sporting workforce. There is a current
equality evidence review taking place
for people and once this is complete we
may know more.
There is a potentially negative impact
on people who share protected
characteristics as a result of the distinct
lack of data.
The UK Coaching Framework (2009)
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Investigate the possible use of UKCC
data. The Scottish Qualifications
Authority should hold this data. Sharing
this data will depend upon the
information in the data protection
statement on the equality forms.
All – evidence overview
What do we know about equalities
within the context of the outcomes?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
What could we do to reduce any
negative impacts, maximise positive
impacts and ensure quality information?
Expert Resource
Expert Resource
All SGBs that receive sportscotland
investment have access to the
sportscotland suite of expert resources.
This includes HR and legal guidance
and advice. Bespoke support such as
an HR health check, are matched to the
Equality Standard, where applicable,
and equality considerations are taken
into account. Individual advice on
equality issues can be given on a needs
basis.
This positively impacts upon people
who share a protected characteristic,
ensuring that SGBs are acting
appropriately and proactively and that
any concerns are addressed with legal
advice when required.
Expert Resource & Investment
Agreement
What gaps exist?
provides us with some high level data
on the coaching workforce. This is the
only report of its kind in the UK.
The Scottish Household Survey
provides some detail about volunteering
but this is limited.
Equalities monitoring is carried out for
the UKCC programme. Sportscotland
has data for UKCC Level 1, where we
have subsdised costs. This data only
covers age and sex. The Scottish
Qualifications Authority may have more
data.
Governing
Governance
bodies
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Investment Agreement
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The positive impact of the expert
resource and investment agreement
can be sustained by ensuring that our
expert resources align their work areas
where there is any overlap and
continuing to develop this dialogue
through our twice yearly Expert
Resource Network meetings.
All – evidence overview
What do we know about equalities
within the context of the outcomes?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
What could we do to reduce any
negative impacts, maximise positive
impacts and ensure quality information?
What gaps exist?
The sportscotland investment
agreement requires our partners to
consider equality. They must have in
place an equal opportunities policy.
Investment Agreement
This positively impacts upon people
who share a protected characteristic as
it ensures that there is a comprehensive
policy in place to protect everyone’s
rights.
Diverse Boards
Diverse Boards
The Equality Standard for Sport helps
governing bodies to understand the
benefits of a diverse board for good
governance from the Foundation level
of the Standard.
The make up of the board is also
assessed as part of the Development
Audit.
Diverse Boards
The potential impact is positive, as
SGBs are educated about the
importance of a diverse board and the
Equality Standard further supports this
work.
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Local authorities are subject to the
specific duties outlined in the Equality
Act, 2010. Like sportscotland they have
Board Governance Training is available
to all governing bodies and covers the
importance of having a diverse board.
A governance framework is in the
process of being drafted and this also
highlights the importance of having a
diverse board.
sportscotland holds data on the make
up of boards for gender only. We could
ask for more detail, particularly from
those SGBs that have completed
Foundation level and will have in place
an audit of their staff and board.
Local Authorities –
increasing opportunities
to participate and
The positive impact of the Standard
could be further improved by supporting
SGBs to widen the distribution of their
board appointment advertisements.
We do not have a clear picture overall
with regards to how equality is captured
in local authority strategic plans. It is
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sportscotland does not currently review
local authorities equality responsibilities.
This is beyond our remit.
All – evidence overview
What do we know about equalities
within the context of the outcomes?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
What could we do to reduce any
negative impacts, maximise positive
impacts and ensure quality information?
assumed that local authorities meet
their equalities duties.
Training partnership mangers to be
awareness of the Equality Act will
ensure that we are working with our
partners with an understanding of the
duties.
What gaps exist?
increasing the workforce
that delivers those
opportunities within
schools and the wider
community
to adhere to a number of requirements,
including the development of equalities
outcomes and monitoring of these.
Jacqui/Shirely – what do we know about
how local authorities incorporate
diversity into their delivery of these
outcomes? Are there any gaps? How
could our delivery support this process
further?
In line with our EQIA principles, we
would not impact assess individual
investments.
What recommended steps should we take to improve the policy and monitor its equality impact?
In developing an action plan, project leads should balance how to maximise the positive impact of the policy or practice on all people who
share the protected characteristics, with the requirement to maximise the core outcomes of the policy/practice (i.e. recommendations should
be proportional and relevant.) The assessment should take steps to embed ways of monitoring the ongoing impact of the policy and practice.
Business plan
Action
Responsibility
Timeline
SGB Generic Support
Support SGBs equality work:
Fiona Fagan
31/03/2015
Fiona Fagan
31/03/2015
(SGS13.06.02)
SGB Generic Support
(SGS13.06.01)
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Continue to develop the SGB equality training programme
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Implement a method for sharing examples of inclusive work amongst SGBs
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Continue to develop partnerships with equalities organisations
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Develop resources to support SGB trans policy development
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Investigate methods for reviewing the protected characteristics SGBs are working with
Deliver the Equality Standard for Sport with SGBs:
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Raise with SCEG gap in Equality Standard with regard to the Standard’s ability to
influence high performance sport and not just development activities
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Coach education
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Investigate with the SQA access to equalities data for UKCC Levels 2-4
(CE)
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Revise internal equalities data collection for UKCC Level 1 subsidy
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Analyse existing UKCC Level 1 data on sex and age to determine areas of underrepresentation
Learning and
Development
(LD)
National and local
partnerships and
planning support
Ensure all partnership managers attend ‘Introducing Equalities’ training, which will provide
them with the skills and knowledge required to support partners to address gaps in their own
policies and practices:
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SGB PMs
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Local authority PMs
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High performance PMs
Iain Kennedy
TBC
Stan Holden
31/03/2015
John Lunn
Jacqueline Lynn
Phil Reid
Include a clause in the local authority investment terms and conditions that outlines our
expectation that LAs will impact assess our programmes locally in line with their public duty.
Shirley
Campbell
TBC
Ensure revised investment principles include a strong statement on expectations of SGB and
local authority partners around equality
John Lunn
TBC
SGB Generic Support
Use SGB Generic Support network meetings to embed equality into each programme area (i.e.
audit, expert resource, safeguarding), and identify areas of overlap and collaboration
Jacqui Stone
31/03/2015
Planning and
Improvement
Complete an evidence review on participation in sport.
Penelope
Peacock
31/07/2014
(NLP)
National and local
partnerships and
planning support
(NLP)
Sign off
Partnerships and Planning Programme Board
Assessment signed off by:
25.04.14
Sign off date:
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Appendix 1: Evidence Overview – protected characteristics
For discussion – this evidence forms the early stages of the Partnerships and Planning evidence review. If it is agreed that this impact assessment only
impacts upon our partners and our investment streams, this table will be relocated to the start the evidence review and relevant evidence moved into Table
1. The information in this table is by no means comprehensive at this stage.
Table 2 outlines evidence, where it exists, that is specific to each of the protected characteristics in terms of broader participation.
As mentioned earlier, membership does not always equate to participation and vice versa. National survey data has been the key source of evidence for this
impact assessment.
The Scottish Household Survey does not report on sports participation by race, religion or belief. This data is collected, but the sample sizes are small and
therefore the data is not robust.
The statistics team have, on an ad hoc basis, provided sportscotland with this data. In order to get a representative picture of participation in sport for
different groups, the data needs to be combined over a number of years.
It is not known if the Scottish Government will be conducting this analysis to form part of their equality evidence.
The Scottish Health Survey includes questions on levels of physical activity, including participation in sport. The Scottish Government recently published a
topic report on equalities groups using data from the health survey collated from 2007-12. This has helped fill some of the gaps where there is limited data.
The sportscotland website has a comprehensive overview of the national data that is collected http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/resources/participation_data/
Protected characteristic
What do we know about this group in
the context of this policy?
Potential impact (positive and negative)
on people who share the characteristic?
Age
What further evidence should we
collect?
We know that participation in sport
changes depending upon age.
There is a clear need to engage older
populations in sporting activities.
The Scottish Household Survey 2012
reports the following data for sport
participation and age:
16-24 – 71%
Governing bodies
Further encourage governing bodies to
work with older populations. Currently
SGBs might not see this as a potential
group for engagement.
Ensure that governing bodies are
considering older people in their
equality action plans (where this is
appropriate and a need has been
25-34 – 65%
35-44 – 63%
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45-59 – 47%
identified).
60-24 – 36%
Partnership managers who work with
governing bodies could undergo
equalities training to give them an
understanding of what they need to be
looking for when assessing and
supporting the delivery of strategic
plans.
75+ - 21%
When this is broken down by sport it is
clear that the decline is greater for
sports like football than it is for
swimming and bowls. The household
survey only asks about participation in
10 sports, so we don’t have enough
data to be clear on what this picture
looks like across all the sports that we
invest in.
Local Authorities
Partnership managers who work with
local authorities could undergo
equalities training to give them an
understanding of what they need to be
looking for when assessing and
supporting the delivery strategic plans.
For young people, the picture is not
quite so simple. There is no national
sport participation data on under 16s in
Scotland. The data we do have is from
the Scottish Health Survey and is
focused more on physical activity.
Workforce
There is a need for better data on this
area to help inform future developments
This data shows that there is a drop off
of participation in the early teenage
years and that this drop off is
particularly prominent for girls.
There is no high level data on the
workforce and age.
Disability
Evidence is clear that people with a
disability participate in sport less than
the rest of the population.
The Scottish Household survey found
that 74% of adults had participated in
sport in the last four weeks, this figure
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Evidence tell us that people with
disabilities are at a distinct
disadvantage when it comes to
participating in sport, including
volunteering, coaching and officiating.
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Governing Bodies
Scottish Disability Sport continue their
work with a range of governing bodies
to ensure they are inclusive of people
with disabilities.
includes walking for 30 minutes. When
walking is excluded 51% of people had
taken part in sport.
Local Authorities
Scottish Disability Sport deploy a
regional workforce continuing to work
with partners to help people with
disabilities access sporting
opportunities.
The same survey tells us that this figure
drops to 30% for people with a
disability. For those people who had a
disability and an illness or health
problem, participate rates fall to 20%.
There is no national data on
participation in sport for children and
young people with a disability. In
addition we have no clear data on other
areas of intersectionality for this group,
such as gender, which we would
assume would have an impact.
Sex
Evidence is clear that women
participate in sport less than men.
The Scottish Household Survey found
that 77% of men and 77% of women
participated in sport in the last four
weeks, including walking. When walking
was excluded the difference was
greater with 46% of women and 57% of
men participating in sport in the last four
weeks.
The evidence shows that women are
underrepresented across all areas of
sport.
Local Authorities
In partnership with sportscotland and
Scottish government Local Authorities
deliver the Active Girls programme.
There is a need to collect further data
on the workforce, once the evidence
review has been completed and we are
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The Equality Standard helps governing
bodies to establish programmes and
initiatives to increase women’s
participation.
The development audit will also
highlight the importance of this at board
level.
The UK coaching framework found that
coaches across the UK were
disproportionately white, middle class
males.
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aware of what already exists.
Gender reassignment
There is no population data available
with regards to transgender
participation in sport.
The trans community are generally
excluded from participating in sport.
The Out for Sport report, a recent piece
of research carried out by the Equality
Network in Scotland, found that 73% of
LGBT respondents think homophobia
and transphobia are barriers to people
taking part in sport.
A companion report specifically on
Trans issues found that almost all
respondents agreed that there was a
problem with transphobia in sport. The
vast majority had experienced or
witnessed verbal abuse. The abuse had
taken part in a variety of settings, from
spectators to competitive sport and
community leisure activities.
For the trans people who responded to
the survey the majority would like to see
diversity training for sports facilitators,
coaches and participants as well as a
high profile campaign to stop
transphobia (and homophobia) is
Scottish sport.
Respondents were also keen to see
governing bodies start to take the issue
of transphobia and homophobia
seriously and take a stance against it.
Sports and leisure facilities could be
more trans inclusive by providing clear
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Governing Bodies
The Sport Councils Equality Group
have recently published guidance on
developing policies to ensure that trans
people can be included in competitive
sport. Rolling out this policy
development to SGBs would be a
beneficial first step, alongside training.
Free online training has been
highlighted with the guidance.
and detailed information about the
changing room provisions, stating if
there are any gender neutral changing
areas and what level of privacy can be
expected. Training staff to manage
trans queries will also help to address
these kinds of barriers.
Many governing bodies do not currently
have a trans policy in place. For a trans
person who approaches a club and
wants to play competitive sport, they
are often unsure of how they will be
treated and often face difficulties
accessing sporting opportunities.
There is a need to collect further data
on the workforce, once the evidence
review has been completed and we are
aware of what already exists.
Race, religion or belief
Data from the Scottish Health Survey,
which collects information on levels of
physical activity (and some data on
sport) amongst the population, has
been published by the Scottish
government on their equalities evidence
finder. This data is reported on in the
Scottish Health Survey Topic Report:
Equality Groups. No similar report has
been published for the Household
Survey, which is the key data collection
method for participation in sport.
For some BME or religious groups
involvement in sport is significantly less
than the general population.
This data tells us that Pakistani
respondents were the least likely to
meet the recommended physical activity
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Governing Bodies
Continued work with BEMIS via the
Equality Standard will help SGBs to
develop more initiatives to include BME
groups in their sport.
levels, with 27% achieving this
compared to the national average of
38%. This group were also the least
likely to participate in sport (30%
compared to a 49% national average).
The report tell us that, in line with other
UK data, Pakistani individuals and
south Asian groups generally, are less
likely to be active. This is more
prominent amongst women particularly
younger women; data shows this
variation to be present from 11 years.
Interestingly, there was no other
significant difference for any other
ethnic group.
The findings for religion show that
Muslims were the least likely to
participate in sport (39%). In addition to
this, Roman Catholics had a
significantly lower participation rate than
the national average (46%)
People from ‘other Christian groups’
had a significantly higher participation
rate at 52%.
Overall, respondents who said they had
no religion were the most likely to meet
the physical activity recommendations.
There is a need to collect further data
on the workforce, once the evidence
review has been completed and we are
aware of what already exsists.
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Sexual orientation
There is no population data available
with regards to sexual orientation and
participation in sport.
The Out for Sport report (also used for
data in the gender reassignment
section) gives us an indication of some
of the barriers to LGB people
participating in sport.
Evidence suggests that the LGB
community are less likely to participate
in sport, across all levels. However,
experiences differ between lesbian and
bisexual women and gay and bisexual
men.
This work area should be continued to
be developed.
The survey carried out by the Equality
Network interviewed just over 100
people. 57% of the LGBT respondents
said that they would be more likely to
participation in sport if it was more
LGBT friendly and 79% agreed that
there is a problem with homophobia in
sport. 63% of LGBT respondents had
witnessed or experienced homophobia
or transphobia in sport.
Recent research carried out by
Stonewall Cymru for Sport Wales
identified some of the complexities of
LGB participation in sport. This was
small research project were 242 people
were survey, mostly LGB individuals.
Findings showed that lesbians (42%)
were significantly more likely than gay
men (25%) to be a member of a sports
club. Gay men (59%) were more likely
than lesbians (40%) to be a member of
a gym or leisure centre.
There is a need to collect further data
on the workforce, once the evidence
review has been completed and we are
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Partnerships with LGB organisations
LEAP Sports, the Equality Network,
Stonewall Scotland and LGBT Youth
Scotland have facilitated some new
areas of work with some SGBs
incorporating LGBT actions in their
equalities plans.
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aware of what already exists.
Not applicable
Pregnancy and maternity*
Not applicable
Marriage/civil partnerships*
*where policy is HR related
Evidence/references
Scottish Household Survey http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/08/6973/13
Scottish Health Survey http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/09/3684
Out for Sport Report & Trans report http://www.equality-network.org/our-work/policyandcampaign/out-for-sport/
Scottish Health Survey Topic Report – Equalities Groups http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/10/8988
Sport Wales and Stonewall’s Lesbian Gay and Bisexual participation in sport http://www.sportwales.org.uk/research--policy/research-themes/lesbian,-gayand-bisexual-participation-in-sport.aspx
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