UKCC
CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Reply to Sport England CEO

Jennie Price
Chief Executive
Sport England

April 22 2010

 
Thank you for your letter of April 22 2010.
 
I do not consider your response satisfactory. I do not consider you have made every effort to investigate and address the issues I have raised.
How could you have investigated the issues properly? You have not made any contact with me!
Furthermore you have been selective in dealing with the matters I raise. Many remain unanswered.

Regarding those matters you have responded to, you do so based on “explanations” by Sport England and/or BJA officers.
Did you not consider that your investigation should/must include hearing our “explanations”?

To sum up your letter:

Sport England gives full approval to the BJA’s competence testing of non-BJA judo practitioners who wish to access the UKCC. Non-BJA judo people say this is discriminatory.

Sport England give full approval as to the BJA charging £200 to competence test a non-BJA judo practitioner wishing to access the UKCC despite the Coaching Standards Group saying this amount was “unreasonably high”.

Since Sport England continues to make no comment as to their giving tacit approval to the public offensive name calling of non-BJA people by the BJA, we can only assume that Sport England gives their approval to the way the BJA behaves.

What you do say on this matter is, you are “keen to see a resolution of the differences between yourself (the Campaign) and the BJA on this issue” and “I would like to offer to facilitate a meeting between yourself and the BJA”.

While you offer to facilitate a meeting as to the issue of the BJA’s name calling, you don’t give a moments thought to considering it of value to discuss with me the issues I raise regarding the UKCC.

There is simply no need for a meeting. There are two simple ways of dealing with this matter:

Sport England  disassociate themselves from the way the BJA behaves and take action or The BJA  retracts the offensive remarks made and offer an unreserved apology to the Campaign and those outside of the BJA.

The tens of thousands (an estimated 120 – 150,000) non-BJA judo practitioners, concerned about their future, need to know what is going on.

As things stand I can only copy your letter and this reply for them to view.


Yours sincerely,

John Goldman

Campaign leader