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Junior Sport



 The Northern Territory Sport and Recreation is committed to:

  • ensuring a safe, quality and contemporary approach to junior sport
  • building collaborative and cooperative relationships with other key stakeholders and identifying future partnerships
  • eliminating inefficient practices and improving access to good practices in the junior sport setting
  • focusing on initiatives in which junior sport includes sustainable initiatives encouraging juniors to be involved into their adult years
  • ensuring duty of care to all personnel and participants through good practice procedures
  • adding to the professionalism of the industry.

The Northern Territory Junior Sport Plan (pdf 879Kb) was launched Monday 13 October 2003 by the Minister for Sport and Recreation, Mr John Ah Kit.

The Plan focuses on delivering and promoting programs & initiatives that will encourage more young Territorians to participate in sport, especially those in regional & remote areas who don't have the same opportunities available in urban centres.

An Action Plan was developed by the Junior Sport Reference Group in December 2003. This Action Plan guides the work the Sport and Recreation does in partnership with Northern Territory Sporting Organisations, Department of Employment, Education and Training and other community organisations.

To date, some of the actions which have been implemented include:

  • Promotion of dry season junior sport competitions and activities at Palmerston Shopping Centre and Casuarina Square in February 2004;
  • Production of a booklet entitled Little Sports which contains junior sport contacts, school programs and junior sport competition and club details;
  • Ongoing weekly ABC radio interview talking about junior sport results, upcoming events and achievements;
  • Ongoing Sport Development Officer meetings, allowing Development Officers the opportunity to network and gain professional development;
  • Leadership programs with Active Australia Schools Network members, which provides training to students in the area of sport and leadership skills;
  • Community S*port Projects, which involve remote communities travelling to a central point, to receive quality sporting coaching from Sport Development Officers. Teachers, Community Sport and Recreation Officers, school staff and community volunteers receive professional development so they can continue teaching sport in their community and school. Community S*port took place in Mataranka in July 2003 and Tennant Creek in May 2004. Mataranka Community S*port will be run a second time from 6-10 September 2004.

The National Junior Sport Framework (NJSF) will seek to assist National Sporting Organisations to provide more and better opportunities for young people to participate in all levels of sport. The NJSF will seek to build safe appropriate environments for the delivery of junior sport. It also aims to better link together sporting organisations, schools, government sport and recreation agencies and the Active Australia Schools Network to provide a team approach for junior sport growth and delivery in Australia.