DIRECTOR
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Iquite enjoy some of Jeremy Clarkson’s stuff,especially the way he starts his motoring column with a story often completely unconnected to the car being tested and then manages at the end to link together the story with the car.I’ve been trying to work out how Imight link my fabulous motorcycle trip to the Black Forest with tales of grotty kitchens, broken boilers and expensive childcare… and I’ve failed completely to do so, which only goes to show that Clarkson has no idea what achallenge writing this column can be. So best Ijust crack on.
We’ve been very busy over the summer period, visiting units, attending some excellent Families Days, running surveys, working to support the AF Covenant and dealing with all kinds of issues you have brought to us. Sadly,around 60% of those issues still come from your experiences of CarillionAmey (CA) performance on SFAresponse
Director
We are seeing the Armed Forces Payreview Body (AFPRB) at the beginning of October and will take
maintenance and we continue to challenge both CA and DIO to perform. Please keep your evidence coming –even if CA performance is showing encouraging signs, we need to make sure they sustain it.
We ran atri-Federation survey on the Future Accommodation Model for the MOD –ifyou completed it then abig ‘Thank You’. If you did not, then be aware that MOD is running aFAM survey in the late summer for Service personnel to complete, which effectively gives families another opportunity to express a view by telling the serving spouse/ partner what to say! Watch out for it –FAM has the potential to transform the way Service accommodation is provided and it’s important your voice is heard, or you’ll end up with a compromise that suits no one.
with us the evidence and views you have given us on topics ranging from accommodation (inevitably), childcare and quality of life to overseas issues and pay &allowances. We are under no illusions, and nor should you be, that public sector pay restraint is about to end but we hope that we can at least influence the AFPRB with your evidence about what matters to you and what you think is working and what is not. We’ll let you know how we get on.
In the meantime, enjoy the magazine…and Icannot recommend too highly the B500 Schwarzwald Hochstrasse…cue glazed eyes and raised pulse rate.
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