One of the reasons we are so starved for time, particularly in this country, is the requirement for mandatory training.
Every year I complete the training I need to complete to be a dentist, safeguarding radiation protection, cross infection, etc.
I feel when I do those training sessions, I never learn anything, and I feel that it never stops anything from being a problem, but I still complete them because somebody somewhere tells me I have to.
Worse than that, though, I also live a life where I volunteer for different things (unpaid positions).
There was a little while there where I was a governor for three different schools (now it's two), but it's not unusual to have to do different types of training on the same subject for each school, even though they're in the same trust.
I arrived home today to mandatory training in cyber security that I have to do for the school that I'm a chair of governors (by tomorrow) and also an email from the football team that I am a coach of to update my safeguarding.
I do safeguarding training for football, safeguarding training for schools, and safeguarding training for my work in healthcare. I'm also DBS checked for each entity separately and the cost that entails.
On top of this, I wrote a blog recently when I came into my kitchen at one point and saw my wife (who works part-time hours) doing a one-hour training session on what to do for a bomb threat at a UK hospital.
Enough already!
It's time to trust people more because even if we don't, the guys who want to slip through the net of training will slip through and do the bad things anyway.
Blog Post Number - 3495
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