Why is there so much about gender? Who cares?
The interesting thing for me is the cadet age graphs. where we and the ACF peak at around 13¾, is this because by this point we the ATC have told them fibs about what they can do and we’ve been found out. I’m sure this older a few years ago.
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I’m surprised there isn’t ethnicity stats too.
Although yes, the age distribution graph is interesting. Why is it that the Sea Cadets have a reasonably slow decline, while ours and the acf is much steaper?
There should be more stats for staff to see the breakdown, especially in terms of age and type. As I’m convinced the rise in the ATC is reg CWC.
These are Government sponsored organisations that are open to everyone and yet don’t attract an even spread.
It’s pretty obvious why they care about gender, and who the they is. It matters.
Those that don’t see that, don’t understand that, don’t care about that, are the ones who are out of touch.
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As I’ve laid out above, from the April 19 numbers, there were 10,830 CFAV (Officers, WO, NCO’s and CI’s) and 4130 CWC and 720 Chaplains.
The increase of ~800 could well be because of reg civ com, so what?
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I regard Reg CWC as an anomaly which is contrary to everything that we are told about the relationship between the CWC and staff, ie as the OC I cannot vote on anything that goes on, yet now there are “staff” who can.
This gets into some of the nonsense of selecting people on some characteristic or other to appease a chart, rather than can they actually do it. Iy’s the sort of thing that comes up when a GE is in the offing and female only candidate lists to push up the number of women MPs. Having said that Margaret Thatcher was IMO aside from Winston Churchill the best PM we’ve had.
I’ve never been into this sort of eugenics, if you’re good enough you get a go, nothing else considered.
Considering gender has been a published statistic in the cadet forces for years, is this actually an issue? Or is it just something you’ve made up?
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There are far more interesting stats such as age and type of staff (as per the survey) rather than just something based on chromosomes, to understand things better.
I would have thought now ethnicity and sexuality would be much more important for govt depts. Just imagine white, male, heterosexual making up the largest ATC staffing group, not happy reading.
You never answered my question, i’ll just assume what you said is a teflonism.
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I’ll bite…
Seriously? Following a resignation I no longer have a single female member of staff on my unit. Clearly I should have one, but at the moment I can’t run an overnight event (following f2f resumption) without support from Wg or another unit…
oh I completely agree on that front, it’s a very strange position that doesn’t make sense.
Believe me I know where you are coming from, I spent 5 years without a female on the staff list, but it didn’t affect things at the time. If I don’t see the one I have now I don’t care as long as she’s able to do activities and thankfully she’s not bothered about doing many things. The irony is when our kids were in primary school there wasn’t male member of staff the whole time our son was there. Every single school trip all female staff and no one batted an eyelid, try and something banal in the ATC no chance. Madness.
I agree with MVL was going to say the smae about registered Civ Com
Figured I’d resurrect this thread rather than starting a new one, the 2025 Stats were published a few days ago.
CFAV numbers are painting a good picture… for the ACF & SCC!
ACF & SCC appearing to have had 2-3 years of growth, whilst the ATC has had at least 4 years of decline.
Maybe Tony should put that his LinkedIN.
“Successfully streamlined our cohort of volunteers”
Next year will be the one that starts to cause panic because the numbers will show against 2022 stats & the ATC will be the only one with a volunteer decrease.
Nothing about this surprises me.