20 | Federation The Private Sector – Purchased and privately rented
Accommodation in the private sector is essentially dependent on affordability,availability and the location in the UK. The following table, from the JSHAO website, provides an insight of average costs across the UK.
Region of the UK Scotland
Northern Ireland The North
Yorkshire and Humber The Northwest
The West Midlands The East Midlands Wales
The South West The South East East of England Greater London
Average UK Property prices paid as at April 2018 (in £). Source Zoopla.
174,660 138,041 184,504 170,321 187,461 215,519 205,368 174,926 281,757 376,509 330,301 638,331
Average UK Monthly Rent as at April 2018
(in £). Source Rightmove. 644 631 578 594 641 676 623 655 787
1,049 908
1,930
Services Cotswold Centre – The Services Cotswold Centre (SCC) –isatri-service facility that provides short term transit accommodation for service personnel, their spouses, civil partners and families.
Service leavers – The MOD Referral Scheme has been setup to assist service leavers who cannot afford to get on the property ladder or privately rent. It is recognised that some service leavers have difficulty in accessing social and affordable housing to through this scheme, charitable housing providers offer where they can, properties to support those who would otherwise have problems.
CarillionAmey (CA) update – Abstract from Stuart Jones, Head of Customer Service, Amey –“I’m really pleased to be able to share an update with RAF personnel and their families during this an exciting time for our business. As you may be aware, we are now awholly owned Amey business and form part of the wider Amey family.We’ve been working hard to ensure that there was no impact on service delivery as we transitioned our business, and Ihope that has been your experience.
At the Customer Service Centre our focus has been on ‘Digital First’, aconcept we’ve taken on from other government departments which aims to provide adigital option for customers. Customers have previously told us that they would like to have more options to contact us through digital channels, so we have evolved our systems to be able to offer this. Our digital journey started in 2017, when we launched our digital communication channels providing customers with Facebook, Twitter,SMS and Webchat options, in addition to our normal telephone service. In 2018 we also introduced arepairs web form, which customers can find on our website, and fill in for non-urgent repairs. The team process these web form requests within 24 hours and it is proving incredibly popular with our customers. Youcan find links to all our communication channels on the contact us page on our website.”
As always however,ifyou aren’t getting atimely service, and have already used your Unit routes to address any accommodation issues please contact me, at the Families Federation by reporting an issue:
raf-ff.org.uk/ (click on the top right ‘red’ Report an Issue button.)
The Future
We continue to meet regularly with staff within MOD who are responsible for developing the Future Accommodation Model (FAM) work strands and ensure that your views and opinions are represented. Please help us to do this by visiting our website housing pages where our FAM FAQs we receive from you are answered by the FAM team and then shared online. In the meantime if you have any questions on housing please do not hesitate to contact me.
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