HQAC uses the term “paused”
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Someone explain to me under the Defence Investment Plan what the cadet ‘gap year’ is….
Is the govt trying to lower NEET numbers by saying that attending cadets twice a week counts for something…….?
There was a thread about it earlier this year when it was first suggested
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Article on expansion plans on UKDJ:
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2030 was never going to happen anyway. At least 2035 allows for a change of government.
No surprise there!
Unless they appoint some more adventurous leaders to cadets who are not so risk averse in future then cadet forces will lose their appeal to youngsters altogether let alone expand and that’s without the poor taken for granted CFAV’s!
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Or a new shiny new vision of the future document. Cough cough Astra cough
by 2035SCC should be taking a leaf out of our book! @Baldrick time to come back to the light side…
In all seriousness it is some pretty impressive growth compared to the others, and the fact that staff are no longer dropping like flies is pleasant news as well.
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how much of this is the post-pandemic effect?
numbers slumped in 2020-21, certainly regarding attendance.
with no attendance, there is no retention.
then of course there were two years of no “blue footprint” being seen
I am not dismissing the numbers, they speak for themselves, but was the shoft from 22-26 a natural “return” to the SOP post-C19:
*parading regularly
*weekend events returned
(both boosting retention)
*seen in the local community
*recruitment opportunities
Is there a similar graph for staff numbers?
Well as per my other post Cadet Force Statistics - #51 by mprentice1
2012 we reported as having 35,750 Cadets
2016 we reported as having 32,860 Cadets
2020 we reported as having 32,760 Cadets
2022 we reported as having 26,040 Cadets (Our lowest point)
Now we’re back to 35,190
That’s better than I expected
It lokks better because we’re starting from a lower point. It’s was 12080 in 2013, and we’re now at 8730.
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SCC is smallest, and more limited by locations, we also don’t do a good job in advertising ourselves.
My unit’s biggest problem is our building. It’s almost 200 years old and it’s knackered. We need hundreds of thousands of pounds for it to be where it needs to be.
We do well in terms of numbers, when the whole unit is in one place, we can’t all fit in the hall for Divisions, so we parade at the “DF” which hires a school.
Does this mean that, generally speaking, you’re geographically dispersed as sub-units (like an ACF coy, rather than an ATC sqn)?
We are, we might be unique however.
There were historically 4 Bristol units, then when I joined, three: Adventure, Knowle and Avonmouth.
Knowle closed recently and the site is being sold, the staff all retired and we inherited the cadets and their unit. We’ve relocated the unit to a local primary school and work as one unit with two sites.
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Geographically dispersed, yes. But not like Coys etc. each unit is a charity in its own right - so closer to a Sqn.
In my County there are:
18 x ACF detachments
13 X ATC squadrons
7 x SCC units
Not wildly out of proportion to parent services.
And the Andrew’s recruitment issues are well documented