Scotland: Veterans Welfare Manager for Fife, Perth & Kinross, Dundee & Angus

Morag from Veterans Welfare Service is now available to offer information or assist with any enquiries regarding Armed Forces Compensation claims or war disablement pensions.

For enquiries or to make an appointment please email:Veterans-UK-VWS-Scot-NI@mod.gov.uk

or call 0808 1914 2 18

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Scotland: Officers' Association Scotland latest newsletter

Newsletter includes Finance Insights events and Veterans Employability Workshops

To read the newsletter 👉 Hot Summer Employment Events!

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Innsworth: Welfare attraction tickets

 

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Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust launches Service women 'Seen & Heard' programme for 2024/25

 

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (the Trust) has launched Service women: Seen and Heard Programme under the Covenant Fund exciting three-year Funding Framework.

The Service women: Seen & Heard programme is now open for applications for one-year grants of up to £50,000 and two-year grants up to £100,000, for projects that aim to tackle issues enabling targeted support for serving women and giving access to support to which they can self-refer.

What is the Service women: Seen and Heard programme all about?

Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust launches Hidden Voices programme for 2024/25

 

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (the Trust) has launched a further Covenant Fund programme under its exciting three-year Funding Framework.

The Hidden Voices programme is now open for applications for grants of up £20,000 for projects that will provide accessible mental health and wellbeing services for under-represented serving Armed Forces personnel, Reservists, Veteran and families.

What is the Hidden Voices programme all about?

The Trust ran a public consultation in 2023, which identified that one of the key areas to focus on was ‘reducing isolation and loneliness for Armed Forces communities.’ This programme will enable and deliver accessible mental health and wellbeing support, as well as to identify known and unknown gaps in service provision. The consultation findings are available to read on The Trust website.

The Hidden Voices programme will support projects which achieve all the following outcomes:

• Build collaborative partnerships between Armed Forces organisations and specialist non- Armed Forces organisations.
• Identity and address known and unknown gaps in service provision.
• Provide accessible, preventative, and defined interventions.
• Increase knowledge and understanding with mainstream voluntary sector of the unique needs of the Armed Forces community.

Who can apply?

NHS England guidance for Service parents - registering a child with an NHS GP and use of the NHS app

Registering a child with an NHS GP and use of the NHS APP

Registration

There are safeguarding aspects to registering children without a parent, but it is not a reason for refusal.

Ideally, an adult with parental responsibility should normally be registered at the practice with the child where the ID of the adult can be matched to the child’s birth certificate details.

However, one of the exemptions to this is where both parents serve in the armed forces and are registered with an armed forces GP.

Further information is available in the Primary Medical Services Policy and Guidance Manual Part B Chapter 4.12 – Registering Children.

In all cases (adult and children), a GP practice may only refuse to register individuals where it has reasonable grounds for doing so. Reasonable grounds may include, in the case of an application for permanent registration, that the patient does not live, or does not intend to live in, the contractor’s practice area or the outer boundary area. A GP surgery can also refuse to register a new patient because their practice is not taking on any new patients.

The ICB can also assign a new patient to a practice whose list is open.

The NHS APP

Togetherall - self-compassion

Gloucestershire: Call for unpaid carers to help shape local support services

 

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To visit the Gloucestershire Carers Hub, please click here

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New awards provide educational support for Service children

 
New awards provide educational support for Service children

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (the Trust) has announced 21 new awards in the latest round of the Service Pupil Support Programme!

Worth £1.3 million, these projects are set to make a real difference to school-aged Service children across the UK - improving their educational pathways and helping to address the challenges they can face.

Supporting Service pupils across the UK

Part of the MOD’s Armed Forces Families Fund, the Service Pupil Support Programme supports projects which focus on pupils from currently serving families and support them along their educational pathways. The projects supported in this funding round address gaps in educational attainment, support Service pupils with additional needs, and support small cohorts of Service pupils within educational settings.

This year, the Trust has focused on supporting schools working in collaborative clusters of three or more to address the programme’s aims. Many funded projects centre on collaboration between schools to facilitate shared resources and good practice.

Scotland: Are you currently on a waiting list?

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NHS Scotland is using a text message service to ensure waiting lists are up to date. 

If you are on a waiting list and have provided us with your mobile look out for a message from the NHS Scotland National Elective Coordination Unit (NECU) on mobile number 07860 039092.

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