Can anyone give a definitive link of which courses are mandatory and current as I’m very confused.
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Definitive? No, not really. I think it depends where you look. You probably get a different answer based on an ACTO vs an ACP vs an IBN vs a region specific email…
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But not if any cadets are nearby, as per Alcohol Policy… 
Badge in the corner suggests it’s been around for at least 2 years! 
Junior Leaders haven’t conducted physical fitness tests for a number of years now.
Not in the traditional fitness test sense or bleep test or 1.5miles in x time, but do they not do a selection weekend? Which will be, by its very nature, physically demanding?
I thought too, that we switched from a time limit to personal effort run?
Ahead of RIAT 22 and mindful of the risks associated with heat illness, the investigators were referred to a range of documentation sets including Joint Service Publications, Army Documents and Air Cadet Internal Briefing Notes that, while containing guidance, appeared to lack any credible reference to a temperature monitoring system that could be applied to persons under the age of 18 and for use by local commanders/trainers. Suggestions to extrapolate from WBGT adult guidance are occasionally presented without cross reference to any authoritative research or evidence to underpin the health and safety needs of young people. It is not clear how the MoD could defend any heat related Rtl assessments in the context of a coroner’s court. It is also noteworthy that the adult WBGT reference charts pay no regard to gender or to the varying rates of physical development of young people as they reach adulthood. This is a whole force problem that requires a solution that must address the MoD’s duty of care responsibilities as detailed under Health & Safety legislation.
My bold. How the hell was this reported in Sep 22, yet this issue still exists.
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Let me make this really clear in a simple sentence:
The National Air Safety Investigation Team at RAF Cranwell have explicitly told 22 Gp that “It is not clear how the MoD could defend any heat related Rtl assessments in the context of a coroner’s court.” and yet nothing has really changed since that report was made about 9 months ago!
What?!
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Not. Fit. For. Purpose.
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Careful - we might get a pause for weather
Dont know which weather …
…just weather
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I said it above…HQ have had months to implement something but waited to the 11th hour to impose an impossible expectation
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How many at HQRAFAC involved in this are reservists and come under military law, either they are told to resign, or face a court-martial for negligence? Either way a clear out is required.
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What they’ve ‘implemented’, referring to the recent IBN and policy update, goes directly against what is quoted above. It’s utter madness.
How can I now as a volunteer take cadets out when it’s hot. I’ve seen text explicitly saying the way we risk manage it (using the JSP rules) is not adequate, and not defendable in a coroners court.
That’s not some random internet strangers opinion. That’s the opinion of The National Air Safety Investigation Team at RAF Cranwell.
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I know we do a lot of training, but I didn’t realise we were literally becoming trains now too…
The RAFACs problem is who pays for it, the RAFAC or RAFCT?
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It’s a clown show.
We now have the clearest evidence that those at HQAC responsible for setting policy are not suitable.
The whole lot need clearing out. CAC included.
In the context of shutting the rest of the organisation down, CAC allowed this to continue. He even released a message stating “do what is right, not what is easy”. CAC has failed to ensure timely action following the investigation. CAC has failed to ensure an adequate and suitable policy provision has been created.
He may have found many problems that need fixing when he took post, but he clearly hasn’t succeeded in fixing them or tasking the right people to do so. He sounds like he talks the talk, but clearly from a management and procedural perspective he isn’t walking the walk.
We’ve got key activities shut down (e.g. ACPS), qualifications that were being pushed so fervently not long ago no longer exist and aren’t likely to be replaced this year, core activities are almost non-existent in some areas (shooting, fieldcraft, flying), and increasing admin burden and anxiety among CFAV. Now have impossible policy requirements to add to the list that THEY KNOW are unsuitable and have done for 9 months.
9 months to create something that can’t be adhered to and from the start should have been binned as an idea.
Part of the role of a leader is take others on the journey with you. He has very little CFAV support (for clarity: real people, not just forum users, also don’t like him), the cadets don’t like him, and even parents are complaining about the ramifications of his actions and inaction. They may have dipped back out again, but not long ago we had parents joining ACC to ask about ACPS and the BTEC.
I try to take a balanced view, I try not to pile on, I try to say “ah but that’s this person’s responsibility”, but I simply can’t any more. Buck stops at him.
Failing to manage the organisation, failing to manage the people, failing to lead.
In this particular instance, failing to safeguard cadets.
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On it.
…aaaaand done.
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Luckily enough a field hospital gets deployed to Nijmegen.