The Demise of AoFAQ | David Arnold | Claire Currie

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The Demise of AoFAQ David Arnold Claire
Currie

• Trainers now have choice and are not required to
  be members of AoFAQ to practice first aid
  training and deliver mandatory courses as there
  are many other certificate issuing authorities
  who provide a more flexible, modern and
  innovative programme to meet client demand.

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David Arnold of AoFAQ and the Dominatrix

• On the face of it, David Arnold, the dimunitive
  5ft 4inch Director of AoFAQ and  Claire Currie,
  who promotes her core Dominatrix service as a
  strong woman competitor in the company of
  impossibly huge bodybuilders would have little in
  common one would think!

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David Arnold as the main director of AoFAQ, has
until recently enjoyed the cosy and lucrative
position of administrating the issuing of
regulated certificates in several areas including
health and safety and first aid. As an awarding
company they provide the course certificates in
support of trainers who actually do the real
training. These trainers join AoFAQ to gain the
benefits of protection and compliance procedures
for complaints, legislation changes and the
like. A0FAQ is a small business set up supported
by four or five clerical staff and an efficient
laser printer. It has inflated its own importance
by producing a veritable mountain of accompanying
forms and paperwork. A mountain that has prompted
the Health Safety Executive to de-regulate the
sector in order to promote more efficient and
flexible training options.
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AoFAQ response to the HSE statement is to confuse
the sector by misuse of the QCF credit issuing
scheme giving their certificates incorrect
credits to make it impossible to tell the time
spent on learning for many certificates they
issue. Couple this with the AoFAQ approach to
discredit anyone training or company working in
the space under the new guidelines to hide the
truth from members that clients and trainers are
now in the driving seat for first aid training
alleviating the sector with badly created
paperwork and a checking process that does not
work for certificates, is it any wonder why
trainers are now looking else where while clients
made the decision some time ago. The new market
brings change for the better, more common sense
and the demise of the AoFAQ monopoly which has
continually delivered poor quality in service and
understanding which led many client to complain
and the HSE to de-regulate the sector and no
longer approve AoFAQ. Clients can choose from
voluntary organizations, third party groups and
independent training companies who specialize in
the sector for their training and certificates
bringing common sense back to all while leaving
the old ways of AoFAQ behind in demise.