You can stop now. No good will come of this.
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What did they have to say?
I’m afraid i quadruple booked myself this evening so didn’t make it to the talk.
Apparently they are publishing their written guidance tomorrow.
However, from a fellow leader, they said that based on advice from the national youth council, they will be moving to a traffic light system of No face-to-face, groups of 6 (inc adults) then bigger groups.
No scout group can even think of having groups of 6 untill a RA has been written and been made available to parents who obviously have the final say o if a kid go to a face-2-face meeting.
The Scouts guidance has now been published.
scouts.org.uk/volunteers/scouts-at-home/getting-everyone-back-together-safely
The Key take away seems to be that no face-to-face activities can take place while the National Youth Agency COVID-readiness level is RED.
The COVID Code
- A COVID-safe risk assessment has been completed and we have communicated control measures to volunteers, young people and parents and all are encouraged to raise concerns
- Additional hygiene measures are in place
- Social Distancing will be observed (check current distance determined by your Government)
- Maximum group sizes will be limited and determined by scouts.org.uk and members will be consistent where possible
- Make adjustments for young people and adults vulnerable or affected by COVID, and consult to make sure return plans are accessible and inclusive
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That’s some really useful guidance from the Scouts and good leadership from their national HQ. Hopefully HQAC are watching and learning.
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HQAC will probably do a Sturgeon give it a few days, changed Scout to RAFAC, add some other bits and Bob’s your dad’s brother.
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There’s also guidance from NYA saying no overnight activities before 25 Sept earliest
A contact of mine in the ACF said “Anycounty Army Cadets are currently planning to restart from September (all being well), with a very ambitious training programme”
I am a little surprise they are in the planning phase…i know you can pick up the plan from 1st September to 1st October/another date but seems surprising to be considering it already when schools remain so restricted
Government have been clear that they expect a full return to school in September so I don’t see why we can’t expect the same.
Odd, because the Army have recently emailed me with Op REGENERATE which is a series of protocols and plans for restarting but with in capital letters ‘DO NOT RESTART F2F TRAINING UNTIL NOTIFIED’. NO dates given.
The ACF have left planning down to each individual brigade/batallion unlike us we have a central team headed by RCSW to create a plan for the entire org
Ah, makes sense. It did come from the Bde CoC.
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That’s probably am ambition and give some of the moaning mines in the school unions chance to get over themselves.
We are still a long way from September with something that seems as fluid as this situation.
And surely the sensible thing to do is a) be as ambitious ourselves and b) plan for the best and be flexible.
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An email has been distributed via Bader. I think I got it via my personal email around a Covid update. Essentially there is no update.
No recognition that it is Armed forces day tomorrow and as I’m aware, today is typically seen as a day to recognise the cadet forces so disappointed there was no reference to that.
There was a post on the RAFAC Facebook page. What more do you want?
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To be fair, the subject of the email was covid . . . not armed forces day/week
Christ, there’s no pleasing some people.
We ALL get an official email, through official channels, direct from the CAC, about a pressing issue, without having to learn about it on Facebook or Twitter first, it thanks us for all our hard work since March keeping the organisation running, and you’re annoyed she didn’t mention a made up holiday?
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Well I won’t open my mouth next time…
From my reading, it would have been nice to have a mention as the first bit was all about thanks in her last few weeks.
I am however very impressed (albeit surprised) that we got an all CFAV email about it. It shows the organisation can communicate effectively when it wants to
I’m amazed we got anything at all given how much downtime the Notify API seems to be having lately.
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