Understanding the workforce
CIMSPA is the lead organisation for the UK’s sport and physical activity workforce. For CIMSPA to be able to support everyone working in sport and physical activity, it is vital that the sector’s workforce is clearly defined and properly understood, from lifeguards and personal trainers to senior leaders of large organisations.
CIMSPA Insight Hub
Data Lens
Data Lens, CIMSPA’s real-time intelligence dashboard for the UK’s sport and physical activity sector, offers a wide range of live labour market and business intelligence data points.
Data Lens is currently available to CIMSPA partners for free as a benefit of partnership. It is also available to non-partners through an annual licence (at cost).
Sport and Physical Activity Workforce Observatory
The sector’s workforce observatory will provide access to the latest real-world data and cutting-edge research into the UK sport and physical activity workforce. This will help to develop curricula; future-proof organisations; inform policy development; support workforce management, development and planning; and foster new research collaborations and interdisciplinary studies.
Local skills project
The right training, delivered in the right place, at the right time.
Our local skills project brings together employers, education providers and employability-focused organisations to effectively and efficiently match supply and demand in the sports and physical activity sector through local skills plans.
As part of the local skills project, CIMSPA supports employers to understand their workforce needs through:
- Local Skills Accountability Boards (LSABs)
- The CIMSPA workforce skills diagnostic survey
Local skills accountability boards
We have local skills accountability boards across the UK, each focused on their local area ensuring their specific local sector needs are met. As CIMSPA continues to develop local skills delivery across the UK, more boards will be set up until we have delivery plans for the whole country.
CIMSPA local workforce skills diagnostic surveys
A skills diagnostic is a short survey conducted by a skills hub manager with the aim of capturing workforce data from around a region to create a true picture of the upcoming recruitment challenges (the skills diagnostic is not an assessment, rating or inspection process).
The local skills hub manager will carry out a skills diagnostic survey with sport and physical activity employers across a region to understand recruitment, training and retention across the sector in the local area.
The survey audits the current skills within your workforce and identifies gaps that need to be filled based upon the demand in your area, using the knowledge and skills criteria of each CIMSPA professional standard.
The skills diagnostic data will help inform decisions made by the regional sport and physical activity local skills accountability boards, who will be putting forward the case for what provision is needed in a given area.