AFF deals with questions and concerns from families who are either parent carers or are caring for an extended family member.
One of the issues that carers face is support from their employer. There are seve...
The Thriving Lives toolkit, developed to help teachers boost their support for service children in primary and secondary schools, is being expanded to cover early years and higher education.
The project buil...
Support is available for spouses of soldiers who are personnel on recovery duty (PRD). Here are some organisations who can help…
The Ripple Pond - peer support service and will connect you with a network o...
Three new funding programmes will launch on 3 April 2023 aimed at improving the lives of armed forces communities.
The Service Pupil Support Programme awards grants to schools to help address additional ch...
Many of you approach AFF to ask whether you’re entitled to support for your children. Sometimes the answers are straightforward, but not always, particularly if your circumstances are a little more complex. H...
In 2018, the Army Welfare Service (AWS) Intake & Assessment Team (IAT) was established as a single point of all specialist welfare support referrals in the UK and overseas, and importantly, you can make d...
With around 180 branches across the UK, Home-Start can offer assistance to parents when they need it most. Supporting more than 25,000 families and 46,000 children, the charity helps those struggling with pos...
Conversations around the experiences of carers in the service community are gathering momentum, with some charities and agencies putting greater focus on carers’ needs, the support they receive and the impact...
Lt Col Brian (Edd) Gordon is the Army Carers Advocate – responsible for raising awareness of the issues within the army for those service personnel with caring responsibilities, advocating respect, fair treat...
There's so much to think about when you discover you’re expecting a baby, or have been matched with a child for adoption, that it’s easy to forget everything that’s in place to help you.
JSP 760 is a good pl...