A new framework to provide a world class coaching environment for England’s teachers and coaches has been launched by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA).

The ASA’s Coaching System Team launched the scheme - which aims to develop a “new coaching system” - at the organisation’s annual conference.

The ASA said that teachers and coaches across all disciplines and the wider coaching workforce will benefit as a result of ‘The ASA Development Framework for Teaching and Coaching in England 2009-2013’ scheme, which will focus on five environments: beginners, talent development, high performance, participation and potential participants.

The organisation said that previous systems have had the education and qualification of coaches as their main focus, whereas “the new framework is all about developing the potential of participants by creating coaches who can promote learning through ownership, awareness and responsibility”.

The four key objectives of the framework are to recruit, train, support and retain.