Facilities Improvement Service
Facilities Improvement Service- Strategic Planning for
Sport
The Facilities Improvement Service (FIS) was launched by
Sport England in 2007 and was a three year targeted programme
designed to offer support to local authorities to
strategically plan for sports facilities. The development of the
FIS
came
from:
- The need to improve strategic planning in relation to sports
provision as highlighted in the 2006 Audit Commission and 2007
CLG
reports;
- The need to ensure a robust evidence base for sport and
recreation was being presented in Local Development Framework Core
Strategies;
- The contribution that sport can make to addressing obesity
issues;
- The need to address the age and quality of sports facilities –
‘the ticking time bomb’;
- Opportunities for sport and recreation from the
BSF
and
HE
/
FE
programmes;
- Opportunities likely to arise from London 2012;
- Opportunities from housing growth
As the service developed, a methodology for working, lessons
learnt and best practice was collated. This has been brought
together in a toolkit, which was used by other local
authorities not in the service to strategically plan for sports
facilities. The Programme finished in July 2010 and lessons learnt
information will be published shortly. The services offered in the
FIS are still available under the Strategic Planning Panel in the
Strategic Planning Framework for
Sport
To download the toolkit please click here.
Direct downloads of the accompanying various documents within
the toolkit can be found below;
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