England Netball Releases New Strategy for Disabled People

England Netball has announced the launch of its new Disability Strategy. In this the governing body outlines its plans to increase participation numbers in deaf and disabled women and girls.

The strategy was introduced off the back of Sport England’s Active Lives 2017/18 report, which found that disabled people are twice as likely to be physically inactive than non-disabled people. In addition, it found that just short of a million people played netball in that time, however only 448 deaf and disabled people took part in an England Netball session during that period.

Within England Netball’s strategy it outlines its mission to enable more than 5,000 deaf and disabled people to participate in netball programmes by 2021. The organisation hopes to achieve this by hosting new competitions tailored specifically to people with a disability, and providing coaches, officials and session providers with the training required to provide more accessible sessions across the country.