GENERAL WELFARE SUPPORT Figure 13:


When asked to describe the RAF-provided welfare services, 33% of participants believed that the welfare services available to them were good. We therefore separated the votes cast into serving and non-serving respondents to determine whether there was any differences between the groups (Fig 13). While we acknowledge there were significantly fewer votes from non-serving family members, it was of note that they were somewhat less positive in their responses, when compared to the serving voters.


“Poor. I feel ignored and unimportant.”


“Both camps (Actual Station and Living Station) have fantastic services, but sadly they don’t get utilised as much and on our living unit, they get forgotten about if only one or two people attend, which for someone with a loved one away isn’t very helpful! Fortunately the parent unit do continue to support us, but with a 14 mile drive it’s a bit tricky!”


“All aimed at people with kids. As a serving wife everything that happens goes on during the working day. You should be more valued as a serving couple but instead you are less valued.”


“Being overseas we feel cut off from RAF matters and as there are only a small number of us we feel forgotten.”


“I didn’t need much support, but I feel others would. I would like to support others who are going through this for the first time.”


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