Information, consultation and consideration

IN A very useful meeting with Tobias Elwood, the Minister for Defence People and Veterans, we discussed the different policies that are currently being developed by the MOD under the ‘people programme’ – import...

A Word From: Supportability overseas

OVER the last few months, AFF has been looking at how families are supported whilst posted overseas. Many of you contact us because you are unaware of what help is available, or because you feel that the assist...

A Word From: Breaking down barriers

SOME of the most common enquiries that come to AFF are around employment and how spouses and partners can make work "work" for them, writes AFF Chief Executive Sara Baade. It's something that I feel very passi...

Effective communication

A word from Sara Baade, Army Families Federation Chief Executive IN A recent meeting, I was asked: "Why is it that Army families' morale is so low at the moment and why are they so averse to change?" At t...

Big thanks for your Big Survey input

MORE than 8,300 families took the opportunity to have their voice heard when we ran our Big Survey 2016: The Future of Military Housing. This is an extraordinary response and I want to start this article by tha...

A Word From: Flying the flag for Army families

IN EARLY November, I was proud to take the reins of the Army Families Federation (AFF) as its new CEO, just a few weeks before the government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) was released. It was ...

A privilege to have served you

I HAVE been hugely privileged to be AFF’s Chief Executive for the last three years, writes outgoing AFF Chief Executive Catherine Spencer. It’s been immensely rewarding as well as enormously hard work and I ha...

What matters to you

FAMILIES have faced unprecedented change through redundancy, restructuring and the rebasing of troops from Germany back to the UK. Servicemen and women have faced long working hours and the impact on families ...

Recruit the soldier, retain the family

We are beginning to see long overdue improvements in the delivery of housing, healthcare and education for Forces families, writes AFF Chief Executive Catherine Spencer. There’s a long way to go but the Arme...