That’s because the CoC, is just a chain. Zero command.
Come on HQAC review the damn rules and match us to the ACF.
Mask wearing… really.
Distancing… really.
It’s becoming nigh on impossible getting cadets to follow this without minutely rollockings now
As you might expect, there are units finding cases, so I’m not surprised there’s little appetite to reduce protections further.
Out of interest, what are the regulations in relation to masks and distancing in the ACF??
Presumably still along these lines…
We should be wear a mask if you want to ie make it a personal choice. This is what happens in the real world outside the Air Cadet bubble.
I can imagine it is irking some in the education world that there hasn’t been a massive surge in schoolkids nationally and maybe this is what HQAC is using as a justification for their intransigence.
Every prediction by the “experts” over the last few months have been so wide of the mark, it’s ridiculous. I doubt they could predict the sun rising in the East.
yes there has. Infections among 11-16 yr olds quadrupled between mid sept and now (Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest insights - Office for National Statistics) while they fell in every other age group
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…hence the cancellation of half term camps
Really. Where?
In WW region we have the Region Camp, station camp in Valley and the Band camp is going on.
North is having a Region camp also. The other 4 regions were bumped from DTE for their region camps. Incidentally WW had book Nescliffe but wee bumped from there.
We just had Halton cancelled 
What level has this come from? HQAC / RHQ / WHQ?
TBH don’t know but may be at station level - Covid risk was the reason I heard
I work in a school which is part of chain of 7 secondary and 6 primary schools. There have been no cases among the kids (1 member of staff) in our school and 3 kids (no staff) across all the other schools, which hasn’t, meant any classes off school. There have been none in the 3 schools we primarily draw cadets from. We’ve not had any cadets apply for any camps, as a couple said the situation’s so shaky there’s no point, which seems eminently sensible, given how windy the Air Cadet management have been about moving even slightly inline with what is happening in the real world. As seen from SM pics they are not worried about masks or distancing.
WRT the info in the attached ref, you cannot make an assumption or infer that the increase is the same across all regions, well unless you want to scaremonger. Looking at the data the increase is just over 3% (which is only 3 in 100) and unless you have some real numbers to go by is not worth the effort as you don’t know the base point of the data. I would want something more before I got excited.
I think you are lucky to be honest. A lot of the schools down here that I know of are having outbreaks/many cases.
You are fully correct here. In fact for the general population the stats show that this is regional. But the fact is, for England, that cases in years 7 to 11 have gone from 2% per day to 6.9% per day in about a month, with a very positive trend upwards. Our rules are only down to each country (Eng, Sco etc) not per region, so I do understand where the Comdt is coming from in keeping the rules as they are.
Although I see where he’s coming from, I still don’t agree with compulsory masks though. Purely because I think the help it gives is so little when cadets is the only place they are still using them. Especially sqns who are mostly filled from the same school or 2 or 3 schools where they are all interreacting during the day without masks.
Should the main Gov or NYA advice go back to masks, then yeah, we should follow. But as they are not, I think it is just confusing/annoying for most. This is clearly shown by the fact the compulsory masks indoors rules seems to be being ignore by the majority based on what I have seen from social media posts.
I think they are just not getting tested. Mrs Farmer constantly has kids with Covid symptoms in the class but SLT tell the kids not to get PCR tests as the time off looks bad on their stats. But the teachers are mysteriously all catching it from somewhere …
This country has learnt nothing in the last 18 months.
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Not a single thing
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This.
I work closely with our LAs school teams. 9 secondary and 70 primary. Every school has had at least 2-5 cases PER week since the start of the academic year.
3 secondary schools are currently having direct interaction with Health as their outbreaks have hit the 25% threshold. Masks are back. Movement control is back. Bubbling - correction - “zoning” had been implemented. Supervised LFTs 3 times a week are back.
5 primarys are currently experiencing staff shortages that viability is being called into question.
We’re also experiencing significant challenges with 11-19s LFT testing appropriately. Again. There’s also a loss of confidence in LFTs overall within the community - which may explain the sudden PR around “LFTs being more reliable than we thought” study today.
We’re also having some PCR issues where there is suddenly a supply chain issue (odd that issue has also arisen on the same day that the LFT reliability study was released???)
Couple that with the very low vaccine uptake in this same cohort?
I can see why Commandant is cautious. And admire and applaud the line he’s taken - albeit, I’d prefer more Comms!! The precautions in place should help protect our cadets education and reduce transmission between schools.
I appreciate that those units which only draw from 1 or 2 schools won’t have as much of an issue. But others out there draw from 6-10 schools; and that’s a problem.
I also recognise that, for some, there will undoubtedly be community transmission outside of cadets anyway, and that point of transmission itself is incredibly hard to prove. But I’d rather not have that on my conscience right now thanks.
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You have to wonder where the kids are getting it from?
We tested the whole school in 2 days and week later at the start of the year and we are going to do the same after ½ term. Each year tests once a week as they arrive.
It’s a virus.
Literally everywhere.
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