If you contact the right people things do happen. Prime example would be when RC LaSER uploaded a load of photos from armouries around Sussex that had way too much detail about where weapons were stored and how they were stored. This was reported by a few people on here to HQAC Sy and the posts were removed very rapidly.
i recall that incident, and it had some potential serious implications.
a bunch of Cadets posing for a photo didnât have any negative implications. it was actually a good PR photo, but it didnât comply with the internal regulations and guidelines on photos.
i ended up speaking to those at the top but as they didnât see the issue (as it wasnât unsafe/dangerous) they didnât see the point i was makingâŚ
Was this something to do with the shooting world by any chance? Iâve seen, and reported, photos previously where cadets are posing with L98s after a shoot where a number of cadets have fingers on the trigger. Although I can assume the rifles were unloaded etc it didnât sit right with me to be showing that as a âPRâ photo. Bad drills. There was also no staff member in the photo which goes against the rules.
Nothing was done about the report though, as they thought it was fineâŚ
Meanwhile, when JL posted pictures of cadets at Test with rifles, with BFAs and blank mags, someone at HQ took them massively to task about the photos being non-compliant, but the shooting regs are almost impossible to apply off the range.
To be fair they are pretty hard to apply anywhere. If I remember correctly there is a bit to the effect of âphotos must be taken with an instructor in a way that would make them difficult to crop outâ. So what do you have to do, stand in front of whoever youâre photographing?
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Yep, which is impossible to do while maintaining the safe distance either side of a blank firing weapon.
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Do you not like a face full of hot gas?
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GMG. Our offices are being restructured. Weâre closing two sites and dropping everybody into the 3rd. The new policy will see a range of options for the workforce:
- Deskless community workers,
- Flexible workforce with 2 day a week in the office
- Fixed 5 days a week in the office.
Weâre having âpodsâ and âbubblesâ installed rather than meeting rooms.
As a result weâre having a disproportionate number of âconsultation meetingsâ where the workforce is being dragged away for 2 hours per session to discuss wallpaper, carpets, colour schemes, desk styles, chair types, breakout areas and lots and lots of other noise and distractions.
There are a team of 8 people currently traveling around other businesses to see how they do it and get other insights and inspiration.
In much the same way as HQAC do surveys about rebranding and CFCs, I fear the results of these consultations are going to be ignored in favour of budget and directors own preferences! But at least weâre being consulted, right.
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My NHS trust telling us months ago to use our annual leave in order to avoid a build up like last year and now we have an email to say staffing is short and we can sell our annual leave if we are unable to use it. 
We and all youth groups should have been following the govt and DfE guidelines as this is what the cadets would have been exposed to and working to. Why on earth we tagged on to the NYA made no sense as it was another group interpreting what was already there.
Err the NYA worked with the Gov to keep us legal.
We are an out of school club and therefore DfE rules arenât applicable.
The issue now is that we arenât following anything just our own made up stuff, but evidently arenât following these made up rules either 
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Iâve said it before what can they do that is that bad? Unless you get done for something relating to children or financial misdoings, getting a disciplinary from anyone in the Air Cadets is meaningless and people are likely to say bye-bye and not just the so called chaff.
In order to have an effective disciplinary system you need to control peopleâs financial lives or something that adversely affects their lives. HQAC does not control our financial lives apart from a few days money and getting your spare time back would not be regarded as adversely affecting anyoneâs life.
This being the key bit. Iâm happy to have âclub rulesâ that might seem stricter than other âclubsâ. But those rules have to be fairly enforced across the board.
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Following the DfE guidelines and the general govt guidelines has nothing to with us not being a school. It has more to do with something that we all got and understood and not involving another body putting their own spin on things to give them some assumed importance.
Except the Gov had different rules for educational settings (DfE) and non Educational Settings (Us)
NYA got all their guidance signed off by the cabinet legal so that orgs were legal.
âNever argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experienceâ
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Your sabbatical over and youâre back arguing with your WgExo?
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i think that is a bit extremeâŚ
you need to be basically shoulder to shoulder with the shooter - this is as much, if not more, the photographers responsibility than those being photographed.
choose the wrong angle and the well positioned safety supervisor or coach can easily be cropped out - shots taken side on are best
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Trains and weather.
Oh. And âDo Not Travelâ advice, which seems to cover everything from âtravel is possible but mildly inconvenientâ to âliterally no way of getting anywhereâ.