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How Has STA Scored?

With swimming pools officially able to re-open in England on Saturday 25th July, it feels like we’ve finally reached our first milestone; and whilst there is still a long, long way to go for many, we’d like to take this time as an opportunity to gain your feedback, to see how you think STA has performed throughout this 18-week lock-down period.

It has been an unprecedented time, there is no other word to describe it, but from the start, our overarching aim has always been to do our utmost to help support and provide guidance to our members and the wider aquatics community – along the way we’ve created a library of free resources and hosted weekly webinars, ILSW and the industry’s first virtual Swim Expo. We’ve also tried to provide as much tangible and practical support as we can through the publication of our re-opening guidance document in May, and our free COVID-19 Officer Awareness training and free risk assessment planning tools.

For us all, it has been a steep learning curve trying to “piece together the jigsaw”, and we’d really value your feedback now on how you think we have performed – would you recommend STA, are there areas in which you think we are doing well and are there areas for improvement moving forward? To help us understand, we have chosen Net Promoter Score, which will give us a very quick method for surveying and analysing your feedback.

Please spare a few minutes to complete our Net Promoter Score here.

Thank you for your time.

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Dave Candler FCIMSPA (Ch)

Dave Candler is Chief Executive Officer of the Swimming Teachers’ Association (STA), a national governing body for swimming and registered charity dedicated to the teaching of swimming, lifesaving and survival skills. He has led STA since 2016, representing more than 20,000 swimming teachers and aquatic professionals across the UK, and also serves as CEO of the International Federation of Swimming Teachers’ Associations (IFSTA), representing member organisations across 22 countries worldwide. With more than 30 years’ experience in swimming teaching, leisure management and workforce development, Dave is a passionate advocate for swimming and water safety. School swimming is a particular area of focus, and he has consistently championed the need for every child to leave primary school with essential swimming and water safety skills, while highlighting inequalities in provision and the need for greater collaboration across education, government, leisure and aquatics. A Chartered Manager Fellow with CIMSPA and a member of the Swimming Alliance Steering Group, Dave continues to bring hands-on experience to his leadership. A senior STA Tutor who has trained hundreds of swimming teachers, he has recently returned to poolside coaching at his local swimming club and is also a keen open water swimmer.

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