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Community Fire Cadets (CFC) is a long-term youth engagement programme in which local young people attend a Fire Station one evening per week, for two hours an evening to take part in Fire & Rescue Service-led activities with a developmental /educational outcome.

It is a 2 year comprehensive, educational and developmental scheme aimed at young people aged from 14 years old and up to their 17th birthdays. Some young people will have the opportunity to stay on and become Junior Instructors with the further opportunity after they have reached 18 to become Volunteer Instructors. Community Fire Cadets are facilitated by

Volunteer uniformed and non-uniformed personnel from within the Fire & Rescue Service and runs one evening each week for 84 weeks over the 2 year period. Currently running at Ramsbottom, Eccles and Farnworth Fire Stations.

It is designed to provide young people from a mix of gender, ethnicity, backgrounds, and abilities with positive opportunities to improve community cohesion and reduce undesirable behaviour by enhancing key citizenship skills in young people through a structured and varied range of Fire & Rescue Service-led activities.

Aims of Community Fire Cadets

• To establish a uniformed youth organisation associated with aspiring to the inherent qualities of the Fire & Rescue Service.
• To assist young people in developing themselves mentally, physically and socially.
• To promote self discipline, social consciousness and awareness of their responsibilities towards others.
• To encourage team working and self confidence in their own abilities.
• To enhance their practical abilities and knowledge, to enable them to pay a full and constructive role in society.
• To improve knowledge and practice in relation to Fire Safety and their personal wellbeing.
• To participate in charitable fundraising activities for the benefit of others.

The CFC syllabus is designed to be modular, divided into topics and subject areas and has the additional benefit of being aligned to a nationally recognised qualification, the Edexcel Level 2 BTEC in the Fire and Rescue Services in the Community. This will provide those young people with the potential to achieve a tangible educational outcome as a result of participating in a Fire & Rescue Service led activity.

The BTEC Level 2 in the Fire & Rescue Services in the Community is accredited on the National Qualifications Framework and will automatically go onto the new Qualification & Credit Framework which comes into force in September 2010.

Cadets can achieve the BTEC at Award, Certificate and Diploma Level.

As an example, the Community Fire Cadets syllabus identifies the learning areas as subjects and these are combined into topics as outlined below:

• Our Fire Service
• Fire Knowledge
• Fire Brigade History
• Our Community
• Community Action
• Life Skills
• My Life
• Operational Practice
• Residential Experience

More information

For more information about Community Fire Cadets please Email us.

Last update: 13/06/2011 09:13:58