I’ve got the crows feet and the first shoots of grey hair to be sure that won’t happen to me 
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But why 
For cadet activity we are following NYA guidelines.
This is a course for our staff being run by the MOD.
If the applicant is content with the measures in place why should we stop.
This is the problem with applying a one size fits all approach on some elements of activity.
On a separate positive note I have some time booked with the SATT in 2 weeks to sort my WHTs. Looking to resume shooting activity in October, does anyone have a CV Shooting RA they have written?
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Because - from the MOD - our activity is Level 3 ‘discretionary’ and therefore should not be authorised for overnight training. Level 1 (Regular training) is authorised.
If you think we are following one set of guidance you are sadly mistaken. It’s a complicated web of multiple countries, multiple organisations as well as our own derived guidance. Nowhere near as simple as saying ‘NYA document says we can… so we can’.
Either way, the NYA guidance doesn’t distinguish between adults and young people IIRC and at Amber no residential activities should be taking place, so even they say it’s not OK.
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You don’t need a Covid shooting RA, you need a COVID RA and reference the F2F Guidance to say you will comply. That’s what we’re doing with planning at the moment.
Otherwise you end up re-doing 100s of RAs to put the same standard stuff in them.
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That is exactly what I’d do for most activities. Though, for some bizarre - but I suppose not unexpected -reason we’re being told to add COVID controls to all those RA’s…
It’s the continuous frustration of the Corps… Does one do what is logical, sensible, and appropriate?.. Or does one do what will actually get authorised? Sadly, they are too often mutually exclusive concepts. 
What if the F2F guidance or government guidance is updated… you going to go and re-edit all those RAs again?
I would challenge whoever is asking you to do the slow way up to Regional level otherwise what’s the point in HQAC pushing out guidance docs if we’re all just going to re-write it in to an RA?
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To be confirmed, assumed Cranwell but not known yet
Which invariably it will be…
Fortunately it’s not my problem these days, but I feel for those who are still on Squadrons.
You mean the same as when some absolute clockwinder at HQAC changes the RA template and then we HAVE to use that new template for everything.
Queue 5 hours work copying and pasting across.
Absolute waste of our time.
So much about this org is geared towards ‘just get the Sqn staff to do it’ that people at HQAC forget we arent full time, we joined as staff to help the cadets, not do admin all the time.
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That’s not how I’ve read the guidance.
I’ve written my return to sqn RA.
We need to add Covid controls to all activities, normally this would be appending them to the RA. But as shooting is in the SST we don’t have an RA
What is your reference on the guidance that says that?
Wait until the new CTR lands in the coming weeks… you’ll need an RA for shooting too!
corrected that for you
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I see CCAT have also parked all course for cadets - and staff - until 2021.
According to the ATF meeting. the module 2 training could be taking place either at RAFC Cranwell, or at regional hubs (depending on how many virtual courses have to be run). If they only run the September course as modular, they will probably run the module 2 at HQ; if they continue to run the virtual courses into October, November or whenever (COVID-reliant), they may offer the more local options for module 2.
They were also planning on upping the number of available places on the virtual courses…
Should know more next week, so watch this space!
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I really hope they do up the numbers but save them for those who missed out during the suspension
Imagine my surprise when I walked past the sqn (a joint cadet building) last night and saw the lights on. Brilliant, I thought, maybe this is the building inspection taking place and we are one step closer.
No. It was the Sea Cadets training inside!!!
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It’s a shame that meeting wasn’t publicised more widely!
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Guidance from Gov.UK published a week ago suggesting young people should reduce the number of extra-curricular activities they participate in.
you should consider sending your child to the same setting consistently, and consider carefully the number of settings they attend overall, in order to prevent your child from mixing with multiple different groups of children.
Interesting.
Wonder what the fall out from that might be.
The 15 limit comes up again and so its linked to the National Youth guidance so that’s something.
By mid Oct we will be able to see clearly what effect schools reopening has had.
I’m basing that on schools go back next week, allow 2 weeks to circulate, get ill, pass it on, and then 2 weeks for death rate to move if it’s going to.
Let’s hope not! (Except down of course).
So if by end of Oct we are still allowed to reopen and parade I rekon we will be good from there.