I have just received the below link to this report.
https://www.northampton.ac.uk/research/research-institutes/institute-for-social-innovation-and-impact/social-impact-resulting-from-expenditure-on-cadets/
I feel it wins the 2018 “No s**t, Sherlock” award!
Who paid for this research? Why couldn’t the money be used to buy Squadron Identification Badges?
Academics asking Academics questions that everyone knows the answers to, to justify their existence!
… and sample pool of … (ta da) … a staggering 338 CFAVs
Looks like someone building a case for CCFs in schools to me.
So Politicians asking Academics to provide evidence for their policies. Still not transparent!!
Just looking at the key findings, where are the Air Cadets? It’s all about CCF, ACF and Army, was a load of testes.
The people I know in schools say that kids who get excluded are almost expected to participate in something as a condition of coming back to their school.
I’m not entirely convinced that seeing us standing around, increases the awareness of the armed forces or veterans.
If you’re in need of a morale boost, the final report has been published:
Interesting read! That’s some serious returns on investment whichever way you look at it.
I love some of the quotes in this report! If anyone ever doubts that what we do can improve childrens’ lives, have a read and enjoy the well-deserved warm feeling that, as CFAV, we do something amazingly positive!
Thanks for the update, definitely agree that it helps focus on the ‘why we do this’ especially when you feel overwhelmed by admin!
The “summarised in a graphic” version:
Pretty accurate too - I think most of those things apply to any of our cadets who’ve been in a few years.