| your magazine |
|
BC
News |
|
|
| inside |
|
beginners |
 |
| disciplines |
|
bmx
cycle speedway cyclo cross disability cycling leisure mountain bike road track Go-Ride |
| general info |
|
where
to ride |
| |
| BRITISH CYCLING ACHIEVES RACIAL EQUALITY STANDARD |
The Football Association, British Cycling and the English Ski Council are the latest organisations to achieve the Preliminary Level of the Sporting Equals’ Achieving Racial Equality: A Standard for Sport.
They were assessed by a panel consisting of representatives from Sport England and Sporting Equals, as well as representatives from other national governing bodies of sport.
The organisations already awarded the Preliminary Level are athletics (AAA and UKA), badminton (BAE), baseball-softball (BSUK), basketball (EB), Bucks and Milton Keynes Active Sport Partnership, canoeing (BCU), cricket (ECB), gymnastics (BAGA), hockey (EH), Humber Sports Partnership, Institute of Sport and Recreation Management, lawn tennis (LTA), netball (AENA), rounders (NRA), rugby league (RFL/BARLA), rugby union (RFU and RFUW), sportscoach UK, South Yorkshire Sport Partnership, Sportsmatch, swimming (ASA)and West Yorkshire Sport.
Others are expected to achieve Preliminary Level of the Standard over the next two months.
Cecil Edey, Assistant Director of Liverpool City Council and the Chair of the Assessment Panel said: “These sports have provided the required evidence that shows they are working towards tackling racism and achieving racial equality.”
Novlette Rennie, Sporting Equals Project Director, added: “We will continue our work with other sports and sports organisations that have yet to meet the requirements of the Preliminary Level and encourage all sports to sign up to the Sporting Equals Racial Equality Charter for Sport. In addition, we are working now with the successful sports and sports organisations on the next step of the Standard., the Intermediate Level, which will embed anti-racism and equality throughout those organisations.”
Tessa Sanderson, the Vice-Chair of Sport England, said: “Sport England expects all sports to put policies, procedures and plans in place to tackle racism and promote racial equality. Congratulations to these latest organisations which have achieved the preliminary level.”
Sporting Equals is a project within the CRE funded by the Commission and
Sport England with a clear objective to promote racial equality in sport.
The project has developed the Racial Equality Charter for Sport –
a public commitment to racial equality which sports can sign – and
Achieving Racial Equality: A Standard for Sport – a framework of
good practice with objectives and targets. Organisations working on the
Standard are expected to provide evidence that they are meeting the objectives,
and the evidence is assessed by the Standard Assessment Panel. Any sport
can submit evidence, but Sporting Equals only provides intensive support
to those governing bodies identified in the funding agreement with Sport
England.
Copies of the Standard and information on the Charter and its signatories
can be obtained from the Sporting Equals website, www.cre.gov.uk/speqs.
� British Cycling 2002/2003
