Re: If you could....

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:20:07 -0700, Steve <steviephilips@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 19 Jun, 22:48, Ewan Scott <ewansc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd go further and say it would virtually stop most Scout activities
as we do not and probably could not provide the equipment monitoring
and recording required. I've seen what is involved in a large
operation utilising outdoor activity kit under AALA, and it required
the full time employment of TWO quartermasters. Bradley Wood can't
even provide supervision of the Pioneering kit, or the booking in and
out of canoe equipment.

I would agree, keeeping to the AALS guidelines would probably be too
much for most groups to manage.

For a start there is a 62 page self assessment guide to wade through;

http://www.aala.org/pdf/self_assessment_and_guidance.pdf

And a host of other paperwork to do too.


The self assessment form shouldn't take very long at all and it should
provide no real obstacles. The 62 pages consist mainly of tick boxes
at about 1 per page and to be honest we really should already be
meeting the minimum standards on just about all of them If anyone is
finding problems meeting the simple targets on the form its maybe time
that a fairly serious review of how they are operating was made.
Quite simply the requirements are not that onerous and we should
already be complying with most of them.
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