…and here’s the actual figures…
(or at least the latest actual figures available to the public: DYER 2011.
N.B. the ‘Not known’ for CCF non-public funds is because it’s very difficult to put a figure on the huge subsidy (financial, facilities, equipment, non-CFAV specialist staffing) that schools give to their CCFs)
In terms of comparison and cost-effectiveness, this is interesting (Ibid)
It should be remembered the SCC decided to
Diverge away from total RN control and get more
Aligned with the merchant navy including funding in the 70s obviously the demise of our MN resulted in less funding to the SCC.
So that would explain some some of the disparity in funding.
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that is some interesting data
looking further down the report offers the cost per head
taken from: Dyer2011
Goodness know where i heard £25/£50 a head but interesting to see that overall the ATC is the cheapest service to run per head
Cheapest to run isn’t necessarily a good thing.
it isn’t a bad thing either…
I remember the comments about the funding figures when DYER came out, a lot of people saying how we the ATC are better value.
But all three cadet forces cannot be compared in that way.
We are all structured and funded differently. The only similarity is without volunteers at “Sqn” and “Wing” levels we would all stop. With the exception of CCFs.
Even with the “public money”, the ATC relies an awful lot on CWC’s raising and spending lots of money, on things that should be provided centrally.
IT £3K to £4K for an average set up every few years, several hundred pa on phone and internet (to do the admin we have to as directed by HQAC), squadron flight sims £2K plus to help provide syllabus training, SOVs purchase and upkeep, AT kit, admin printing etc etc and all the other things we spend money on, as we don’t get the money through HQAC. Add this into the costing and very soon the figures would look very different and suddenly the ATC is not the ‘dream ticket’ in terms of cost, that it appears.
With reduced cadet numbers as well, the published ‘cost’ would increase.