Established in Sydney in 1967, ATPCA has operated for over 50 years in the Tennis industry, and since then has professionally trained and accredited over 5,000 tennis coaches worldwide.
Our commission is to serve & support the independent tennis community that we represent.
- 1967ATPCA FOUNDED
- 1997VETAB & RTO APPROVED
- 1999ASC ENDORSED
- 2003TA ENDORSED
As a major stakeholder in the coaching industry, ATPCA developed and originated its training competencies in conjunction with VETAB – ensuring the integrity of our coaching standards thereafter.
ATPCA’s current qualification courses were approved by the National Coaching Accreditation Scheme (NCAS) in 1997 and subsequently for 3 years by the Tennis Australia (TA).
This endorsement was withdrawn however via the untenable requirements proposed to ATPCA when Tennis Australia (TA) decided to enter the coach training market in its own right in 2007. As a direct competitor ATPCA was now seen as a threat to its commercial agenda and cooperation between the two organisations broke down.
Since 2007 ATPCA has continued to operate with the coach and tennis industries best interests in mind as we believe competition is in the best interests of tennis and the consumer, and that a monopoly style system of governance and education is conflicting and destructive to growth and diversity of tennis. With our Head Office, Based in Sydney NSW, ATPCA operations have expanded as we deliver our training courses in all the major cities of Australia, as well as having a international presence in China, Hong Kong, Japan and the Philippines.
As of 2018 the ATPCA current Coach Membership base is 1200 Coaches worldwide.
STARTING IN 1986, SPORTSCOVER HAS GROWN FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH AND IS NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST SPECIALIST SPORTS INSURERS IN THE WORLD.
The Office of the Children’s Guardian was established under the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 to promote the interests and rights of children and young people living in out-of-home care.
In 2013 legislative changes expanded the role of the Office to be an independent government agency that works to protect children by promoting and regulating quality, child safe organisations and services.
The Office reports to the NSW Minister for Family and Community Services and to Parliament.
Under our legislation, the Office of the Children’s Guardian:
- accredits and monitors the designated agencies that arrange statutory out‑of‑home care in NSW
- maintains and monitors the NSW Carers Register, a centralised database of people who are authorised, or who apply for authorisation, to provide statutory or supported out-of-home care
- registers and monitors agencies that provide, arrange or supervise voluntary out‑of‑home care
- accredits non‑government adoption services providers
- authorises the employment of children under the age of 15, and child models under the age of 16, in the entertainment sector
- administers the Working With Children Check and encourages organisations to be safe for children
- administers the Child Sex Offender Counsellor Accreditation Scheme – a voluntary accreditation scheme for persons working with those who have committed sexual offences against children.