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SUMMARY
Many of the issues personnel and their families have raised to us should really come as no surprise to leaders at all levels. We sense from our people this year a real prevailing atmosphere of a service trying to ‘do more with less’ whilst set against a backdrop of real infrastructure and support challenges. At the forefront is the requirement to sustain (and in some areas grow) front line capabilities within a pressurised, affordable defence budget. There is no doubting that the personnel that the service recruit across the rank structure, are intelligent, experienced, academically capable and comfortable with challenge. However, once again the obvious cumulative operational tempo and manpower tensions for many respondents is having a arduous effect on our people and their families. The issues raised by them are self-evident and line up with many of the outcomes from AFCAS/FAMCAS/RESCAS, and from other work reported by AMP Briefing Team and others.
With the confluence of work underway in both the MOD and the RAF including; Future Accommodation Model, Combined Accommodation Assessment System, Flexible Service, Flexible Working, RAF Enhanced Career Management, Families Strategy and so on – it remains essential that all our people feel engaged and that they are instrumental in any policy development. Going forward the RAF Families Federation look forward to playing an active part in ensuring that our people’s voice is heard.
OUR ROLE
The role of the RAF Families Federation is to provide an independent voice for all RAF Service personnel – Regular and Reserve, married, single or in a partnership – and their families. Our evidence is presented to RAF and MOD staffs, as well as ministers across government, in order to provide a snapshot of current issues and to help inform the delivery of future policies.
The Federation also provides a signposting service for those who need advice and guidance with a problem or query and we work closely with RAF HQ Air Community Support Staff, the MOD, organisations such as the RAF Association, RAF Benevolent Fund, SSAFA, other Government Departments, NHS, private companies and, especially, with local authorities in support of the Armed Forces Covenant.
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