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What is the CAPS?   

CAPS is the acronym for The Club Action Planning Scheme. This scheme is aligned to the Sport England Clubmark accreditation scheme which is the only national cross sports quality accreditation scheme for clubs with junior sections. It is built around a set of core criteria which ensure that accredited clubs operate to a set of consistent, accepted and adopted minimum operating standards. To become a CAPS accredited Netball Club the club must be affiliated to register.

Clubs achieving this accreditation are recognised nationally as having a well run club which is ACTIVE and ACCESSIBLE. This means getting the best out of young people and giving everyone a sporting chance.

CAPS has three levels of accreditation Bronze, Silver and Gold:

  • Bronze CAPS is the first level, incorporating the Clubmark criteria and covers the areas of safeguarding and protecting children, quality coaching and officiating, equal opportunities and good management. Bronze must be achieved before Silver or Gold.  
  • Silver and Gold CAPS is about demonstrating further quality across the areas of coaching, officiating, and developing volunteers. Clubs achieving Silver or Gold are demonstrating that they have met the minimum operating standards required for Clubmark but have also demonstrated a further commitment to ensuring a club environment which provides a higher quality of coaching, leadership and volunteer opportunities for young people. 

To register your club for CAPS please visit the link below and download, complete and return the registration form.

http://www.englandnetball.co.uk/make-the-game/CAPS

There is no charge for registering for the CAPS scheme.  All you need is a commitment to development and good, safe practice.

Why become a CAPS accredited Netball Club?  

Working towards CAPS enables the club to develop in a wide range of areas such as:
  • Increasing membership and retaining members
  • Developing coaches, umpires and volunteers
  • ·Developing links with schools 
  • Raising the profile of your club 
  • Adopting good practice with regards to duty of care and sports equity 

NEW Clubmark incentives

England Netball have now introduced an incentives package for those clubs that accredit at Bronze, upgrade to Silver or Gold or re-accredit with the new assessment and support pack. Clubs will receive cheques for the following amounts: