Page 2791 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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I also call on the ACT government to continue to encourage and support sporting clubs and organisations in ensuring they are operating in line with the national sports volunteer strategy and are continuing to engage with their volunteers. I note this is part of strategic initiative 3.4 of the active 2020 strategic plan. It says:
In line with the National Sports Volunteer Strategy, ensure a more structured approach to volunteer planning and support for clubs around recruitment, definition of roles and responsibilities, retention, costs of volunteering and engaging corporate volunteers.
All of those things are very dear to my heart.
Through this motion I also call upon the government to continue to engage with schools and sporting clubs to help them build partnerships and share facilities for the benefit of the clubs, the codes and, most importantly, ACT students. I note strategic initiatives 7.5 and 7.6 of the active 2020 strategic plan deal with these areas. They say:
Promote more partnering and sharing resources in program delivery, coordination and leadership.
Promote multi use of school facilities and allow access for clubs.
This is a very important strategic initiative, as it is something I identified when I was consulting with the sporting and recreation clubs in this city. This is one of the areas in which they express the greatest amount of challenge and the greatest amount of need.
I call on the ACT government to continue to ensure improved integration and coordination of non-government provided sport and recreation facilities with those provided by the government. I note that this is dealt with in strategic initiative 7.9 of the active 2020 strategic plan. It says:
Ensure better integration and coordination of non-government provided sport and recreation assets and infrastructure with government provided assets.
Whilst I call on the government to undertake actions as part of this motion—and they are all contained within the strategy—I should reiterate that this is not solely a government strategy. It is one in which the government has been fully engaged and is supportive of playing a leadership role with industry. However, it is one that was also developed in conjunction with the industry and a very strong partnership through a working group that was made up of industry representatives. As such, the full delivery of this strategy will require the continuation of this genuine and productive partnership between the sector and the government. It will also require continued cooperation from all parts of the community.
Given the close partnership experienced in realising this strategy, I am confident that the minister and this government stand ready to continue working with the sporting and recreation community to deliver the strategy and, indeed, to work with any other
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