P ADERBORN , SENNELA GER & DETMOLD 2012
91 The Royal British Legion
www.britishlegion-pb.freetzi.com www.britishlegion.org.uk
The Royal British Legion offers a wide range of services, ranging from welfare support to advice on resettlement opportunities. The local branches are very active. They hold meetings and fund raising events on a regular basis. The money raised goes to the Poppy Appeal Benevolent fund which is used for helping Service/ex-Service personnel, and their dependants in need. The Paderborn branch is situated in Building 12, Dempsey Barracks, Husaren Strasse. Events are advertised regularly in Punchlines, on the Garrison website and on the Paderborn branch website. A regular feature is the Bingo on Wednesday evenings – Doors open 1900 hours.
You can obtain further information by visiting the Paderborn branch website at www.
britishlegion-pb.freetzi.com The Paderborn Branch Chairman is Jim Griffiths MBE, telephone 05254 4208. The Secretary is Robert Millar, telephone 05250 937328, Sennelager military 4653, email
rblpaderborn@gmx.de.
British Forces Social
Work Service (BFSWS) Who and Where Are We?
BFSWS consists of 22 professionally qualified social workers, supported by administrative staff, and a Learning and Development Manager. All are SSAFA Forces Help
personnel.The social work staff have demonstrable experience in Children and Families Services in the UK before joining SSAFA Forces Help.
The Head of Service, Service Manager Operations and Learning and Development Manager are based at JHQ. The Central Referral Team, which takes all referrals to BFSWS, is based at Gütersloh and has a manager, a social worker and an administrator on duty to answer the phone and receive referrals during office hours.If you are concerned about a situation and need help or advice about what to do, you can call the central referral team to discuss your concerns.
There are two Family Support Teams covering the BFG and the ISODETS, each led by a team manager. The Family Support Teams provide local social work services to their Garrison communities. In addition to the two Family Support Teams there are three senior social work practitioners; fostering, adoption and additional needs and disabilities who cover BFG and the ISODETS.
The Joint Response Team consisting of one manager and two SSWPs is co-located with three members of the SIB in Gütersloh, and undertakes new child protection investigations as a single agency or together with the police as appropriate.
When offices are closed, an out of hours service is available for cases of emergency involving children. This service consists of an on call duty social worker and manager.
BFSWS is aware that, although the number of cases requiring social work input is no more prevalent within the military than in the civilian world, families in the military who are living overseas are under different pressures. The majority of the community is young with many families away from home for the first time, living in an unfamiliar country, separated from close friends and relations. For extended periods, two parent families become single parent units when the partner is deployed. In times of military
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