Some of the benefits to the service community from covenants created in their local communities include:
- prior to the last deployment the covenant partnership in North Yorkshire designed and provided a programme called “Lost Worlds” to 150 council staff who were then better able to support families and particularly children and young people more effectively
- Vale of Glamorgan council introduced a new policy of asking customers if they have an armed forces connection when they contact the council in order to ensure that the service community receives all the services they are entitled to and has worked with external partners to provide an online database of support available to the community
- Hampshire County Council are working closely with schools to look at how we spread best practice in the support of children of service personnel, and have established a newsletter in order to spread ideas and practical solutions
- DG First Contact was established by Dumfries and Galloway to develop a strategy with key decision makers and service providers in Dumfries and Galloway to support ex-service personnel, with Dumfries and Galloway becoming one of the first regions in Scotland to set up a priority system for re-settling veterans in the social housing sector
- Birmingham Council has a dedicated ‘Armed Forces Housing Officer’ to support those leaving the services
- Buckinghamshire County Council set up an action plan looking at issues such as using GP groups to help gather information on the armed forces community; ensuring children of service personnel have access to appropriate school places; looking at skill matching armed forces skills to their civilian counterparts; providing links between employers and ex-service personnel
Find out how the Department for Work & Pensions is improving support for members of the armed forces and their families under the Armed Forces Covenant here.
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