Australian sport: The Pathway to Success

1. Australian sport: The Pathway to Success ASC Briefing 19 May 2010

2. A better Australia Health, well-being, social cohesion and inclusion, international relations, international success, economic benefits, national identity and pride Collaborative national sports system creating opportunities for all Australians to participate and excel ASC AOC/APC/ACGA State and Local Govt NSOs (including SSOs and Clubs) Other system partners “A shared vision for Australian sport”

3. Cohesive effective national sports system: critical building blocks • new National Sports Policy Framework - clear objectives / KPIs • greater funding certainty- longer time horizons • vastly improved connectivity, alignment and collaboration- planning and delivery coordination • whole of sporting pathway focus- high performance and development /participation (not or) • boosting children’s participation • strengthening core system elements including talent identification and development, coaching and officiating, SO capacity and support, facilities, volunteer support, inclusion strategies and athlete well-being • increased research and sharing best practice to drive system improvement and innovation • ASC system leadership and new priorities

4. “Whole of sport approach”

5. Key reform package components

6. Key reform package components

7. Key reform package components

8. ASC’s Future Funding Horizon – new direction End of current financial year

9. ASC future funding horizon-prior to new direction

10. Benefits to Sport • Secure increased funding base with rolling 4 year funding envelopes • provides surety for sports moving forward and allows them to plan with confidence • sports now have a more secure platform to grow their capacity and sustainability • Strengthened sporting pathways • Stronger NSOs • increased organisational capacity to deliver • Increased funding for athletes and coaches • coach attraction and retention • athletes not “distracted” • Better aligned high performance program • AIS and State and Territory Institutes of Sport collaborating and with improved coordination of program delivery

11. Benefits to sport • Increased opportunities for aspiring emerging athletes through increased investment in TID and Local Sporting Champions program • Increased support for volunteers, particularly coaches and officials • extra resources for training and education • along with a reward scheme • Stronger focus on getting people participating in sport, especially children • For the first time, sport and education will be partners at Commonwealth, state and local levels, getting more kids physically active and loving sport • Specific population groups will have more opportunities to participate in fun, safe and inclusive sport environments

12. Benefits for ASC • Our role and positioning as system leader reinforced • “ in recognition of the significant leadership role played by the ASC, Australia’s peak national sport agency will be tasked with progressing Australian Sport: The Pathway to Success” • AIS remains with ASC • integrated and guided by our planning and system leadership • recognition of importance of continuing to invest in SSSM • Our strategic plan’s fundamentals affirmed • particularly pleasing is the recognition of our role in working with other Government Departments (DEEWR, DoHA, DFAT, FaHCSIA, Infrastructure) • recognition of the importance of contribution to broader Government objectives • recognition of the appropriateness of driving for a more cohesive and collaborative system

13. 2010 Roadmap: SRMC Reform Priorities • National Sport and Active Recreation Policy Framework • Sport Institutes Technical Advisory Group • Indigenous sport reform May – Jun 2010 Jul – Sep 2010 Oct – Dec 2010

14. 2010 Roadmap – ASC Strategies and NSO Planning and Funding • NSO Strategic Plans by 30/9 • NSO High Performance Plans 30/9 • NSO Sports Development plans incorporating participation by 30/12 • NSO funding assessments • Confirm NSO planning requirements May – Jun 2010 Jul – Sep 2010 Oct – Dec 2010 • Development of key national strategies: • Sport and Education • Volunteers in sport • Sport and Social Inclusion System leadership strategies

15. ASC’s new collaborative planning approach NSO Strategic Sports Plans ASC SDSRs and SISs

16. Building system cohesion ASC NSO ASC and SDSRs work with SSOs to strengthen their NSO–SSO alignment SDSR SSO Current alignment is strongest horizontally Governments need to strengthen the vertical alignment to role model expected behaviours and reinforce the importance of the NSO-SSO relationship

17. Aligning high performance Key elements AIS ASC NSO ASC is leading the strengthening of alignment and collaboration by joint SIS/SASs and AIS engagement with the NSO on high performance planning Collaborative Partnership Agreement / SRMC reform* National Athlete Support Scheme SIS SDSR SSO AIS reforms RAS local govt clubs

18. High Performance Roadmap

19. INCREASING PARTICIPATION mm collaboration for complementarity SDSRs ASC Private providers Health promotion bodies eg. VicHealth $$ new $ conditionality AASC Other sport providers NSOs Clubs Sport and Education, Volunteers, Social Inclusion SSOs mm Strengthen relationships and alignment

20. Sport Development / Participation Roadmap

21. 2010 Roadmap – ASC organisational change • Finalise 10/11 Divisional Business Plans and budgets aligned to new priorities • Commence next steps in organisational change: re-structuring and capacity building • Commence detailed implementation planning and delivery of core new initiatives • Continue to build organisation capacity and shift our culture including “1ASC “ as part of restructured ASC aligned to the new direction • Clarify future direction of AASC program May – Jun 2010 Jul – Sep 2010 Oct – Dec 2010 • Development of key national strategies: • Sport and Education • Volunteers in sport • Sport and Social Inclusion System leadership strategies

22. What are we seeking? • Identify which sports should be targeted for investment to maximise the impacts reflected in the objectives • Objectives ultimately derived from the new National Sport and Active recreation Policy Framework • Need to assume some interim objectives for the first iteration : these informed by Ministerial Charter letter and State and Territory consultation • Need to define criteria to determine the priority sports • Existing ASC criteria need to be reviewed cognisant of the interim objectives • sports excellence : international competition results and planning capacity/ cap • sports relevance : participation level and cultural significance • sports effectiveness: governance, management and financial viability • New criteria likely to differ for high performance and participation

23. Some considerations re criteria • How should international success be defined? • Should capacity to self fund be a consideration? • Should all criteria be equally weighted? • Is the current weighting afforded Olympic sports appropriate going forward? • How should membership (current participation) be measured? • Should we adopt different objectives and criteria (weighting) for high performance pre 2012 and post 2012?

24. Concluding thoughts • We have been given the opportunity to take Australian sport to the next level – we need to think sport and sports • We are at the beginning of a new collaborative planning process which will require tolerance for ambiguity, agility, trust, and understanding that we have some critical timelines to hit in the first iteration of this new process • We should think from an integrated not individual jurisdiction perspective- both planning and program delivery: “whole of system contribution focus”

25. Concluding thoughts • It is critical to secure strong NSO-SSO alignment, particularly around NSO strategic plans: this has implications for both governance, culture and relationships • It is likely that ASC will strengthen performance review and accountability requirements for funding as a part of the “new world”