AF COVENANT (continued) Identify and raise awareness of the key issues for RAF personnel and their families
• Regular visits including station briefings to RAF units to liaise with station executives and welfare staff and more recently, the unit Covenant Champions.
• Identified numerous, specific issues affecting individual SP and families and used our experience and knowledge to help resolve them favourably with LAs, Health, Education and DRM contacts and networks. Examples range from assisting with securing recognition of special education needs between postings, maternity pay on posting, council tax for deployed personnel occupying private residences to car insurance ‘no claims’ whilst overseas.
• Meetings with local authorities and attendance at local Covenant Partnership Boards to support the implementation of the Covenant. Including raising awareness of the key issues for RAF personnel and their families and how these may be addressed under the Covenant and within local and national policy.
• Built upon previous work with OGDs (notably DWP, DoH, DfE, DCLG) and relevant organisations to help them understand RAF lifestyle and family issues and to develop policies and procedures that help to remove disadvantage. Examples including regular feedback on issues to the DoH AF Health Commitments Meeting, briefing the NHS England AF Covenant Clinical Reference Group and maintaining our regular presence at regional NHS England AF network meetings.
• The Covenant Managers have delivered presentations to a number of local authority partnership boards throughout the year including MoD Conferences and the Warwickshire Community Covenant Conference. Examples of successful engagement are demonstrated by their involvement in leading workshops at Community Covenant Conferences in Lincolnshire, Surrey and Suffolk amongst others, to raise awareness of the issues for RAF personnel and families.
Share good practice and Covenant related information
• Contributed to the joint FF presentation at the MoD “Our Community, Our Covenant” Conference in November 2016 and input at MoD Covenant Fund team workshops to advise and support second round applicants to Covenant Fund.
• Attended the DRM Employer Engagement Conference and supported Regional Employment Engagement Directors in their roles, particularly to raise awareness of the issues surrounding spouse employment and how employers could pledge support.
• On Education we are members of the new Service Children’s Progression Alliance facilitated by the University of Winchester, funded by DCYP to research and address disparity and promote the progression of Service children into further and higher education.
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