There are plenty of other people to ask “Why in the name of sanity do I have to create an SMS event for a blasted Heartstart course???”… I can focus my skills elsewhere.
I also question this part - is it specifically a course with an outcome (HS, YFA), or are they including a scenario night with refresher debriefing?
Getting my Teflon™ crystal ball out, seems as though someone somewhere has cheated, or someone has it in their head that people are cheating (not that this actually resolves that).
The only practical purposes I can see are for audit (who is training, how often) and then the option to drop in on a unit claiming to be running training. Micromanagement in a nutshell.
All of this is supposed to be making our lives easier… Yet we’ve added another seemingly irrelevant layer of admin…
No such thing as a PiPE in SMS, but there are still public events that are participated in…
Tbh, I pretty much ignored the message on the basis of “I’ll fight that battle when and if I need to” and not really feeling like ACTO10 is my idea of Saturday night bedtime reading
We’ve always created SMS activities for all first aid in our wing for years now. Apparently because the course aren’t RAFAC, but under license of SJA and BHF so it’s to appease them that we’re doing them correctly.
For heartstart, they are appeased by us filling in their course log and sending it to wing. I don’t see any justification for creating an activity for heartstart delivered on a squadron night.
No issues with doing them for yfa as we run them at weekends at my squadron and it makes assigning the subsequent qualification to attendees easier if we have other units invited.