COVENANT
The Armed Forces COVENANT ATWORK
The Armed Forces Covenant has identified that more support is needed on family healthcare, children’s education, spousal employment and commercial disadvantage. Every local authority in Great Britain (and two in Northern Ireland) have signed the Community Covenant.
If you’ve ever wondered just what the Armed Forces Covenant actually does, here are just afew highlights of what has been achieved in these areas.
Commercial disadvantage •Mobile phone providers Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three will now allow Service personnel and their families to suspend phone contracts whilst on overseas deployment, so that they are not required to pay for services that they are not using.
•Next year the Defence Secretary will seek asimilar commitment from the insurance sector,toensure that service personnel should not be financially disadvantaged by insurance premiums because they are posted overseas to support their country. Work is also underway with the Royal Mail to promote the use of the British Forces Post Office Services (BFPO) address system to the financial service sector so that Service personnel and their families can access products and services when overseas.
Spousal employment •ASpousal Employment Trial has been launched under the Career Transition Programme. This will run for 2years and started on 1October 2015, with 400 spouses of Service people being offered agrant of up to £1,000 to be spent on training and education to increase their employment options.
30 Spring 2016
www.raf-ff.org.uk
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