The flying scholarship scheme of the past was one thing - professionally run commercial flying training organisations provided 30 hours of training.
With the best will in the world, you couldn't expect a RAFFCA club to push its members aside just to fly students which the RAF couldn't manage to train itself. The infrastructure (aeroplanes, instructors, facilities) is unsuitable for more than a few trainees at a time. A handful of enthusiastic part-time instructors and a non-uniform fleet of aircraft are inadequate for such a task - anyone agreeing to a contract to do so would be on a hiding to nothing. It would be unlikely for even the best run flying club to be deemed appropriate for the task; in the past, CFS used to take a very close interest in the training organisations used for flying scholarships and I cannot see that being any easier with the advent of MAA et al....
Incidentally, microlight training has been considered before - and rejected.
Train properly, or don't bother.
That's another big change then. On the UAS I flew Lightning, Jaguar, Wessex, Hawk (8 trips). I was given pole time on all of them, oh, and 2 weeks in Gibraltar - very educational.
Indeed! On the UAS at which I instructed, ground branch students were expected to fly air experience trips. But of course we didn't have non-RAF ground branch trainees back then. If a ground branch APO had asked not to fly, Questions Would Have Been Asked! We also tailored the air experience to suit their potential branch - I well remember doing some flight profiles for an engineering branch student who wanted the information for his thesis, for example. And one of our more enthusiastic young ladies was an admin branch APO who subsequently did very well in her service career.
Join a UAS and choose
not to fly - ridiculous!