Our approach to accountability supports partners to give an honest account of their actions and how these contribute to the Sport Wales strategy. It allows partners to prioritise the collection of insight which is useful for helping them to learn and improve.
Our approach seeks to encourage honesty, learning and a culture where it is as important and feels just as comfortable to talk about what’s gone wrong as what’s gone well.
A commitment to the accountability approach is a requirement of receiving public funding and forms a ‘valuable’ part of the ‘up to’ amount a partner can receive.
Its purpose is to:
- support partners to reflect on their activities and to learn and improve
- describe how public funding is being utilised
- share learning and practice across the sector
Every funded partner is required to consider its accountability on a quarterly basis, supported by its Relationship Manager. Good practice and sector themes are identified from this work and fed back to the Sport Wales Board and the sector, to inform future planning.
This approach supports us all with learning and developing together as a sector.