The FA’s Director of Football Development Sir Trevor Brooking will be one of the speakers at the seventh UEFA Symposium for Coach Education Directors, which will take place later this month at the Grange City Hotel in London.

It will focus on events that have taken place in the decade since six UEFA member associations - France, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain and Italy - were the first to sign the UEFA Convention on the Mutual Recognition of Coaching Qualifications.

The objective of the symposium will be to review the project over the ten years since its inception, and to introduce the next phase which will include a specialised élite youth-level diploma. High-profile guests and speakers including Gérard Houllier and Fabio Capello will contribute to the event.

Delegates from The FA will also be there to highlight coach education in England, and boys aged between ten and 18 from Tottenham Hotspur's development scheme will contribute to a practical session.

The Coaching Convention was set up with the objective to upgrade coach education within the European national associations and reflects the desire to have compulsory coaching licences in all member associations.

All teams, and especially professional clubs, should employ only coaches who have undergone coach education and hold an appropriate licence - a view that meets the requirements of the UEFA club licensing system.

London's symposium will centre on the next phase of work under the coaching convention, and on effective player development through good coaching.

For more information on the event, visit www.uefa.com