What is the UKCC?
The Netball UKCC is about supporting Our Great Game and making coaching better and therefore supporting our players of today and tomorrow.

Netball Scotland, Welsh Netball and England Netball are all working together to develop an education programme to develop our coaches in all 3 countries.

The United Kingdom Coaching Certificate (UKCC) is a Government led strand of work that arose from the recommendations of the Coaching Task Force that reported in September 2002. 31 sports are involved in this UK wide initiative and are recognised in 3 phases. Netball is a phase two sport and has received funding from Sport England to develop the UKCC for Netball.

The UK Coaching Certificate is an endorsement of sports-specific coach education. It ensures that sports are delivering the best available, athlete centred coaching both in recreational, development and performance environments. It is a joint Netball development between England Netball, Welsh Netball and Netball Scotland. The UKCC will significantly change the shape and quality of coach education within and across Netball. In the future England Netball will be a formalised education provider of vocational qualifications that are appropriately developed, delivered, resourced, assessed and awarded.

England Netball is the lead agency within Netball for the UKCC. The Netball Associations of Wales (Welsh Netball) and Scotland (Netball Scotland) are equal partners in the developments.

In September 2004, Netball submitted successful Delivery Plans to each of the Home Country Sports Councils for funding to support the development of the Netball UKCC.

How will the UKCC benefit coaches?

  • Enhance coaching skills, linked to the player pathway
  • Raise the profile of and professionalise sports coaching
  • More flexible coach centred training programmes
  • UK wide recognised qualifications
  • Provides a benchmark for employers and deployers of coaches
  • Core coaching skills are recognised and transferable between sports
  • A UK wide endorsement of tip quality, safe coaching

Guidance on costs for the Netball UKCC Qualifications at Levels 1 and 2

The UKCC qualifications are now underway at England Netball for level 1 and 2 coaching qualifications. Level 3 will follow later this year.

Here at England Netball we are doing all we can to help you develop your career within the sport by providing the best quality of coach education available. The level 1 courses have shown to be a great success for with nearly all courses registering as a sell out.

We are doing our very best to keep the cost of our level 2 courses as low as possible, however with the high standard of venue we require to host our courses this has had an impact on the course cost, moving our anticipated cost from £275 to £360. England netball are constantly looking for ways to access funding for participants to subsidise the challenging cost, currently England Netball is taking this role and continues to subsidise the cost of the delivery across the country as best as we can.

The cost of Netball coaching qualifications:

Level / costs
Netball UKCC Level One (3 day programme) / £170 per person
Netball UKCC Level Two (5 day programme) / £360 per person

Comparison of costs across other sports:

Level / Tennis / Football / Hockey / Triathlon / RugbyUnion
1 / £110** / £85** / £130 / £195 / £88**
Level / Football / Hockey / Canoeing / Swimming / Triathlon / Athletics / Golf
2 / £300 / £350 / £480 / £639 / £395 / £350 / £400+VAT

We acknowledge the costs are higher than the awards that have been delivered in the past. The reasons for this are the additional costs are as follows

  • The Netball UKCC Level 1 and 2 are recognised qualifications that will sit on the National Qualifications Framework and be recognised as any other qualification at the appropriate levels
  • The qualifications will meet the UKCC endorsed quality standard
  • The qualifications have been designed to meet the needs of the coach and vitally the players at the appropriate level
  • The length of the courses have increased by more than 100% to ensure we train our coaches effectively and offer better support
  • Assessments have been built into the courses to reduce the inconvenience to coaches and not have to arrange and attend separate assessment days/sessions
  • The coach tutors, assessors and verifiers are fully trained and accredited to deliver the best quality course and learning environment
  • Costs are fully inclusive of the following
  • Tutor fees and expenses
  • Assessor fees and expenses
  • Verification costs
  • Coach resources
  • Coach registration and certification costs with the Awarding Body