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“I’m currently serving and my partner is also serving. We have a 2 year old daughter and her father (my partner) gets barely any time to spend with her if we live by the rules, as he has to live in the Sgts Mess while we are half a mile across the camp in SFA! Stupid rules dictate that he is not allowed to live with us and therefore I am classed as a single parent, however when work dictates that I have to work nights, it seems to be OK for him to do all the childcare! The Service needs to look at what they expect of us and write the rules to fit, not expect us to bend the rules to meet Service needs!”


“There has to be a cut-off point for who is and is not entitled to MoD housing. This cut off point should not be made ‘easily accessible’ as housing is already limited, however adults who have been together for a ‘suitable’ amount of time and/or with children should be able to live together without the pressure to marry immediately but with the intention of doing so in the near future.”


When asked to determine what criterion they regard as the most important, perhaps not surprisingly the issue of children attracted the most votes, closely followed by the duration of the partnership and the existing living arrangements.


We often receive evidence from couples who feel frustrated that they are still not able to live with their children as a family, within the Service community, even though they have been together for a number of years. Feedback indicates that it is not always about the financial aspects of having to live in privately owned or rented accommodation, but the fact that they feel they are not recognised and supported by the RAF as a whole.


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