Focus on education overseas
Defence Children Services (DCS) schools and settings overseas can now expect a regular ‘Review of School Effectiveness’ (ROSE). This is an opportunity to look closely at the quality of education and care prov...
Resources for military children
Deployment can be a challenging time, bringing a host of conflicting feelings. Forces Children Scotland, with funding from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust and BFBS Big Salute, has produced an interactive...
Raising awareness of armed forces children
Firrhill High School in Edinburgh recently held a screening of a documentary, which offers an insight into the experiences of armed forces children at the school and the staff who support them. The film explo...
Funding supports service students
Beyond the Barracks, a project to promote equality of opportunity in higher education, has been awarded funding from the Office for Students (OfS).
The partnership between York St John University, higher edu...
Weekends to reconnect
Little Troopers has launched All Together family reconnection weekends for military families to spend quality time with each other. This is time families are encouraged to put down their phones and iPads to t...
Childcare survey snapshot
Serving personnel and their families have been contacting AFF to voice their concerns about the difference in funded childcare hours across the UK and overseas. As a response to this, AFF launched a childcare...
Forces families make lasting memories on a SSAFA Short Break
Children with additional needs and disabilities were able to try activities like ziplining and using high ropes during a memorable weekend in the Lake District.
The short break held at the Calvert Trust in M...
Wraparound childcare expands to Europe
The MOD Wraparound Childcare scheme (WAC) has now been expanded to include locations within the European Economic Area and Switzerland (EEA&S), as well as for children at Defence Children Services setting...
Right to be heard in Scotland
Forces Children Scotland has been working with service children across the country to focus on what the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) means to them and how they feel their right...
Celebrating service children in Scotland
Month of the Military Child (MotMC) is coming once again this April and many organisations across the UK are gearing up to help celebrate the children and young people of serving and previously serving person...