SPRING
seems like areally good time to update you all on some
of the major themes where we will be focussing our efforts during this
year.These themes come from the issues raised to us by individuals (in their hundreds…. or thousands) through our website and surveys. When we are out and about, we often hear the same themes again –raised by Welfare teams and line managers, as well as serving personnel and their families:
• Accommodation and Housing: This area still forms the bulk of individual queries that are raised to us. We are working hard to shape the future contract for SFA maintenance based on our knowledge of the issues that RAF families have experienced. Also, to help us deal with the current questions people have –and ensure that we are supporting all RAF personnel, including those in SLA –wewill recruiting another member to our team to help us.
• Childcare: Availability and cost of childcare is akey concern for us. There is some hard work going on within the RAF and MOD focussed on how childcare provision can be improved, and we believe it is so important for families when tackling the demands of service life. Iamdiscussing this with the Armed Forces Select Committee and a Policy Advisor role has been established that has childcare as part of the remit.
• School Place Allocation: We still have asubstantial number of issues raised to us on this. Asurvey and report have been done that will be released shortly, and we will be continuing to lobby both locally with the relevant local councils, and also at policy level with the Department of Education.
• Health/Additional Needs: This is an area where we have been supporting both single serving personnel and families for some time. This year it becomes afocus for the work of theMODArmed Forces Covenant Team, and we want to ensure we fully understand the needs of the RAF community and are well placed to support it. Another Policy Advisor role will be focussed on this work too.
Lastly,please keep an eye out for ashort piece in here from TorJohnson who is leading for us on the Dispersed Families research project. The first stage of her report will be published very
shortly.The next stage of her work will look at the experiences of those posted overseas, with the aim of identifying best practice, and areas where the provision and processes could be further improved. She will be looking for people to speak to, and circulating ashort survey. If this is relevant to you, then please keep your eye out and support this work.
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