It seems that the Tier 2 restrictions on indoor socialising are making a lot of my staff think it’s inappropriate to be at the sqn. 
So staff meeting plan looks to be going up in smoke. Also has me worried about how we complete our return documents and then how we staff in Jan assuming we remain locally in Tier 2.
You can’t go to a restaurant with people you don’t live with. You can however have a staff meeting and order pizza 
I see it as an opportunity, but apparently it’s far too risky.
Not at all concerned that there is such faith in the gov approach as being correct, but I’m sure comes back to Christmas really.
Bah humbug
Depending on numbers we may do a staff and staff cadets Meeting before Christmas or an outside Christmas parade with brazier, mince pies hot squash (bring your own cup) and the padre saying a few words. Defiantly no singing. It would be great to get the sqn back together before Christmas but I can also understand new year opening also. Just worried about a January lockdown.
Sign me up!
Like the idea of mince pies. I’m sure we’ve got some old 3822As we need to get rid of too. Might go for a socially distanced xmas party.
Any good ideas?
Great to hear the NYA say that groups of Adult Volunteers/Paid staff can meet for the purposes of planning/training with no limit on numbers (providing social distancing etc)
Ah did they? I missed that - I might have given up when I heard O18s were staying at Red, assuming the organisation would extend that to volunteers.
It was answered during the Q&A session
Equally, as @Cadet04 will be pleased to hear, if we can fully recognise our Staff Cadets as volunteers, then they can attend as “leaders” and form part of the “+staff” number.
Can anyone summarise the webinar?
The NYA are splitting youth work into two categories, Under 18’s and Over 18’s.
Under 18’s youth work - AMBER
Same restrictions as prior to the lockdown.
Over 18’s Youth Work - RED
Can only attend “Support Group” activities if specifically invited after a drop in 1-to-1 “triage” session.
Over 18’s who are “junior leaders” can attend under 18’s sessions as part of the leadership team as long as there is some sort of process in place to identify them as a leader.
Activities that are mixed under/over-18 participants must run as if all are over-18.
Guidance document (v4) should be published at 5pm today at https://nya.org.uk/
Worth reiterating that this support group context is irrelevant to us as it’s not what we do - so I’d anticipate that for us O18s won’t be able to do anything. Will be interesting to see what comes out from HQAC.
that is true, however we have a process in place that identifies O18s as “leaders” with expectations and responsibilities.
Hopefully it’ll encourage a move to treating Staff Cadets as Junior Staff rather than Senior cadets.
Just bin over 18s off.
Jesus, hasn’t everything shown its time now.
Simples. HQAC issue a IBN stating Staff Cadets considered junior leaders by virtue of their age, experience and position within the organisation.
+18 Cadets continue to attend.
So they all get the lanyard as well?
Oh yes! That really will stoke things up!
Arguably there is actually no need for HQAC to issue anything to enable Over 18s to continue. We already have a process in place identifying them as leaders - They’re “staff cadets” and this policy has been in place for years.
What we will of course require is something to spell it out for the masses.
Playing devils advocate here if they don’t class Staff Cadets as junior leaders does that mean HQAC could communicate a ban on F2F still?
Only for over 18s. Activities for under 18s could continue as per previously.