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...
Childcare explained
We know that the cost of childcare is a big consideration when it comes to families’ schedules and budgets. As childcare is the responsibility of the individual governments in England, Wales, Scotland and Nor...
There for families in need
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity provides support to families with a seriously ill child, recognising that family life is profoundly affected during such times, especially when you’re also part of a military ...
Holidays with a difference
Do you have a youngster who fancies a holiday with a difference next summer? The Annington Challenge is for UK-based military youngsters aged 10-19 and is aimed at those who would benefit from an experience p...
Childcare funding overseas
Eligible working families assigned overseas can now access 15 hours of early years childcare funding for children aged between nine months and three years.
Children aged between three and four years can alre...
Boxes will bring Christmas Smiles
More than 100 soldiers, school pupils and volunteers packed 2,500 special Christmas boxes for military children who have a parent deployed overseas with the armed forces this December.
It was organised by mi...