Beyond Compliance:

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Beyond Compliance The Race Challenge
EQUALITY DIVERSITY UNIT
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Beyond Compliance The Race Challenge
Charters and Standards as mechanisms for
promoting racial equality in sport
Jonathan Long Karl Spracklen
CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
The idea

• Response to racism within sport
• A Charter of Principles
• Signing-up / making the commitment
• Addressing the Standard
• Support
• Monitoring

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
How it started

• Local government Racial Equality Means Quality
  (CRE)
• Kick It Out,
• Tackle It, 1995
• Racial Equality Charter Standard for Sport,
  2000
• Racial Equality Charter for professional football
  clubs

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
Building interest within sport

• Backing of sports councils
• Developing a sports equity framework
• Financial levers
• Making the business case

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
More than ticking boxes

• Its a start
• Evidence based
• Provides a management framework for advance
  (route map)
• External monitoring and evaluation
• Local checks

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
Progression

• Preliminary Intermediate Advanced
• From the abstract to implementing good practice
• Success

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
Changing cultures

• RE becomes integral to what the organisation does
• Part of promoted identity
• Problems of whiteness actively addressed
• Hearts and Minds / Vision and Character

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
Responsibilities and collaborations

• Legal moral duties
• Named individuals or whole organisation
• Formal partnerships (e.g. Voice East Midlands,
  Refugee Council)
• Community links

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
Resources

• From the sponsoring organisation
• Competing demands
• Need for sustainability
• But organisations with small resources can
  deliver positive outcomes with commitment at
  senior level

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm
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The Race Challenge Racial Equality in Sport
New directions

• Enforcement
• The challenge of demographic change
• Generic issues of equality
• Mainstreaming equality

CARNEGIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/cri.htm