Please see the following link to the Sport Nottinghamshire website with all of the forthcoming coach and club education workshops that are running in Nottinghamshire until the end of 2011.
Includes ‘Safeguarding and Protecting Children’ and ‘Emergency First Aid’.
From 1st January 2012, no coach except those licensed at UKCC Level 2, or above, will be permitted to coach independently.
All coaches need to be adequately qualified to coach independently.
The former England Hockey Coaching Committee, the Coaching Department and the Hockey Coaching Implementation Group across Great Britain (formerly the UK Source Group (England, Wales &Scotland) have debated this issue at length and approved the following policy statement:
‘From 1st January 2012, no coach except those licensed at UKCC Level 2, or above, will be permitted to coach independently’
This is a reminder to all Level 1 coaches that time is running out and following 4 years of previous notice that coaches must be qualified at Level 2 to coach Independently.from January 1st 2012
Please click on the following link to the web site for a full explanation and it is suggested that anyone planning to coach independently should enroll and upgrade to a level 2 during this summer