Enter our winter 2019 giveaways

WE HAVE sourced some fantastic prizes for this winter’s Army&You. If you’re a British Army family, click here to view the entry form. Choose as many giveaways as you would like to enter, complete your detai...

Robert’s story

Robert Wells joined the army at 18 and served almost 13 years in the Royal Military Police. After leaving, he ran his own security business, working as a close protection officer in many challenging environment...

Adopting a family

MAJOR Andy Wilson and his partner Stacey adopted two children through SSAFA, the armed forces charity, which has a registered adoption agency as part of its services to forces families.  Talking about the ad...

We’re listening

AFF decided it was time to understand more from families about the unique challenges service children face and the contributions they make. In our recent survey, we asked you about your children’s experiences a...

Helpful Hampshire

Hampshire has a large forces population, with more than 6,000 military pupils on roll in its schools – comfortably the highest number of school-aged children from a service family background in the country. As ...

MOD schools: The future

FOLLOWING the drawdown from Germany, the MOD’s Directorate of Children & Young People (DCYP) has been undertaking a review of its future MOD schools and early years settings in Germany, Cyprus, Brunei, Gibr...

School Report: Longstone Primary

Army&You highlights the support that schools worldwide show our military children. This edition, we're heading to Scotland... How does the school help service children settle in? We always try to give...

Language barrier

Following our Learning the Lingo article in Army&You’s winter 2018 edition, Esther Thomas, AFF’s regional manager overseas, has learnt that you can no longer access funding and arrange your own language tra...

Read the small print

Not reading the small print is a common fault for many of us who lead busy lives, but it can also result in paying over the odds for products and services that you can’t access or are not eligible for, or missi...

BATUS babies benefit

When a baby is born overseas, one of the first things forces parents tend to do is apply for a birth certificate so they can obtain a passport. For British army families living in BATUS, this process can take s...