Yeap… Made me go back and revisit this post from 2 years ago - and reflect how nothing has really changed…
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I think this highlights more than anything why the ATc needs to cross train with the other cadet forces & have volunteers collaborate particularly at wing level in sharing ways of doing things.
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I’m adding this to my growing todo list.
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Does anybody know everybody’s favourite HQ Wing Commander’s ACC handle?
Staff volunteer development is on her list…
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I may forward this on to my HQAC contact anyhow. It’s desperately missing from RAFAC training and would definitely be useful for recent service leavers, who already have all the AVIP knowledge anyhow.
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I must say, the staff training I’ve done so far online has been excellent quality. Far better than the ATC.
I will also say, that the cadet training syllabi on Training and Admin is not as good as what the ATC offers. I’m teaching the Able Cadets Leadership at the moment, and I’m using ATC slides, because they’re better.
It’s a shame that this problem exists.
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If only we had a joint HQ where we could share good best practise across the differing orgs!
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If only the organisations spoke at all?
Oh, another thing I’d not seen before. The URNU delivered exped training at unit tonight!
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Can you link please?
I just searched “Working with young people” on DLE and it came up, about 5th on the list or something like that.
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Partner and I went aboard the Prince of Wales yesterday at the Pier Head, Liverpool. Very impressive vessel, even though we were only allowed onto the hanger deck.
The SCC were present with cadets including their band, which was excellent, very smart and very impressive yet again.
The RAFAC were there at some stage yesterday.
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Visited it on a course a couple of years ago. Really impressive.
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Literally front page of BBC
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Next headline,’RAFAC saves 40,000 young people from shooting by removing weapon systems fro use without replacement’?
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Jordan Wylie is at it again with another high profile and ambitious expedition raising funds for the ACF Charity (and also squeezing in some Scouting shots in the promo video!).
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I can imagine the ATC’s effort - an Open University lecture first broadcast at 1am in 1983 on the thermodynamics of aluminium. Complete with elbow patches and a delivery that insomniacs dream of…
The optics reflect the ethos of the orgs - the ACF and Scouts are about getting out, the ATC’s are about going in…
The RAF of course is the service that goes to Antarctica most often, but you’d never hear that from the ATC.
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The Army Cadets have launched their Parent Portal, calling it MyCadet
I know a Parent Portal is on the wish list for Bader, I wonder when it’ll appear.
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We should go over to Westminster and just put a RAFAC shell on the Army Cadet portals. They clearly have more funding for features and it’s what the RAF does (Defence Gateway is funded by the Army, the My RAF app is My Navy with an RAF skin, etc.)
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Sea Cadets have a parent portal too. Letting me see exactly what my child has signed up to, sending course JIs, making me aware of other up and coming opportunities and - most impressively - allowing me to make a direct payment for ANY of the above. No cash. No cheques. No “popping into the unit”. No managing receipts. Just straight and easy payment system.
Sigh.
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