No A4 paper on the floor!?
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This was one of the funniest bits in the return document. Along with having the windows open to let the wind throw the paper in the air…
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Every RA that comes from HQAC makes me laugh. Particularly the transport one. Imagine a bus driver having to warn passengers of the dangers of getting off a bus at every stop. Crazy.
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This is because no one at HQAC who is involved in writing them will never sanity check them or ever use them.
As a bus driver for schools I have never had to read an RA to the users.
I think the whole point of GRAs is that the author puts in as many risks as they can, then the end user takes out what they don’t consider necessary.
A point lost on my WHQ, who immediately made it policy that no one could book any white fleet buses without having passed a manual handling course…
There will be a limited set of circumstances (overseas camps, maybe) where the use of a UK minibus/coach will mean people may need to exit into traffic.
According to a previous regional H&S advisor, we should be regularly reading all of our RAs to our cadets…
Sometime I think we have gone way to RA crazy. It is what it is. If I read out an TA at ever pick up o think I’d have to start work at 6am.
I have had an officer stand over on camp and watch me read out the RA and also he made a point of watching me do my checks.
So we are definitely not in step 1 for indoor anyways.
Looks like 15 or fewer, outdoors, from 29th March.
12th of April (earliest) for indoor max bubble 15. So like we were in say Nov 2020.
My key takeways
- Documented Guide won’t be available until later in the week (Weds/Thurs) currently with Gov Legal Team
- No Changes that affect RAFAC on 8 March
- 29 March move to Amber / groups of 15 Young People Outdoors - AT / FT / Shooting let’s GO!
- 12 April Indoor & Outdoor up to 15 Young People per bubble (Where we were pre Lockdown 2 / Tier 4)
- 17 May Move to Yellow / Bubble sizes TBC / UK Residential Allowed
- 21 June Move to Green / Group Sizes TBC / Social Distancing & Masks TBC
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Not quite.
We were allowed to reopen indoors previously as an org. So effectively like step 2.
Or are you speaking as your Sqn?
Edited as he’d not put the bullet up when I typed that!
But eqaully for my Sqn but were running weekend activites at the parent station indoors.
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Good summary, could you also edit to add that NYA say leaders/staff are outside of the bubble?
Be interesting to see if that’s how the RAFAC/MOD interpret that also.
Given that the person leading on our recovery plans is seconded to another part of government, I think assuming that we will react at all (and especially before the end of March) is quite hopeful. I would like to be surprised, but I doubt I will be…
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That’s how we interpreted it last time and is how it’s written in the guidance, so we should be fine.
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Quoting myself, but I already said this 
The current RAFAC guide says;
2.3 RAFAC face-to-face activities in England are limited to a maximum bubble size of 15 cadets, plus staff cadets and CFAV6. V4 of the NYA Guidance differentiates between support for over 18s and under 18s; for RAFAC, staff cadets are deemed to be instructors and not recipients of training.
This has been the case in the Return to Sqn Guide since V6 issued on 22 Sep 20 (Good use of amendment list)
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I think that CAC is taking a heavy interest in this now while RC SW is not in.
His latest Weekly Update said;
Staff in HQ Royal Air Force Air Cadets are working hard to understand what our journey will be to restarting full range of face-to-face cadet activity. This work is not easy as we are not yet sighted on the legislative position for the youth sector across the UK, so please bear with us.