West Midlands: Wolverhampton Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Surveys for the Armed Forces Community

As part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) City of Wolverhampton have launched surveys to capture the experiences and understand the needs of the Armed Forces Community in Wolverhampton. Your input is invaluable in helping us support you better. Please select the appropriate survey below:

Personnel/Veterans: For individuals currently serving or who have served in the armed forces, including both full-time personnel, reservists, and veterans.

Family Members: For families of serving or former armed forces members, including spouses and partners, widows and widowers, wider family members, and adult (18 years or older) children.

Service Children: For children (including adopted children) of serving or former armed forces families who are younger than 18 years.

The surveys are now open until Monday 19 September 2024.

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Scotland: Most Frequently Reported Scams in Scotland 2024

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The latest Scam Share bulletin has case studies and advice on how to avoid the top 5 scams reported by Scottish consumers in the Big Scottish Scam Survey. 

https://mailchi.mp/75adbc6ce9c5/trading-standards-scotland-bulletin-12-september

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Scotland: Do I need to keep my child off school?

Now your child has settled into school or nursery, they may pick up some bugs or illnesses, not every illness needs to keep your child from school or nursery.

Have a look at the useful guide below and see how long you may need to keep your child off for. 

It's always handy to let the school or nursery know, and you can contact the GP, NHS 24, or your health visiting team if you need advice on managing symptoms and illness,

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Colerne: Weekly schedule of community groups on camp at Azimghur Barracks

 

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Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - new Trust funding programme to support family members of Serving Personnel and Veterans who are wounded, sick or injured

The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (the Trust) are proud to introduce the Family Focus Programme, part of our ongoing rollout of Covenant Fund programme launches.

Based on feedback from the Trust’s consultation findings, this programme has been designed to fund projects that explore and pilot solutions for family members-both collectively and as individuals- of wounded, injured, and sick, serving personnel and Veterans.

What is the Family Focus programme all about?

The Trust ran a public consultation in 2023, which identified that one of the key areas to focus on was ‘supporting those in need of special consideration.’ This programme is dedicated to supporting family members who care for serving personnel and Veterans who are wounded, injured or sick. It aims to address their needs beyond their roles as carers and consider the wellbeing of the whole family unit, enhancing quality of life. The consultation findings are available to read on The Trust website.

The Family Focus programme will support projects which achieve one or more of the following outcomes:  

The Business Launch Accelerator Course from the Milspo® Network - Empowering Military Spouses to thrive

 

The life of a military spouse and partner is full of unique challenges – from frequent moves to deployments and unpredictable schedules. But amidst these challenges, a desire to build a business and pursue financial independence often burns brightly. The Milspo® Network recognises this and has created the solution: The Business Launch Accelerator Course.

This comprehensive 8-week online programme is specifically designed for military spouses, partners, and other-halves eager to start and grow a business.

Why choose The Business Launch Accelerator Course?

Weeton - Army Cadets - Kirkham & Weeton Detachment

 

Stafford: Staffordshire fire & rescue community risk management plan consultation 2025-2028

                                    
                         

                   

Have YOUR say on YOUR service

We are currently developing our new Community Risk Management Plan 2025-2028 (CRMP), which sets out our priorities for the next four years and the approach we will take to ensure we do not compromise on our commitment to protecting our local communities, reducing risk and maintaining firefighter safety.

We would like to hear what you think about our draft CRMP so that your feedback can help shape our final plan. A summary version for quick reference is also available here

Please click the “Take the survey” button below to complete our online survey and you could win a £100 Amazon voucher (terms and conditions).

TAKE THE SURVEY

WATCH OUR VIDEO

Our consultation runs from 14th August 2024 to 5th November 2024

f I could please ask you to take some time to consider our plans and complete the survey and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to do the same.

Thank you for your time.

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Grantham: Breastfeeding Support Group

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Stafford: Staffordshire fire and rescue service are recruiting

 

Please find below a link for the Whole time Firefighter Recruitment vacancy. This will go out to the wider public next week. As a service we recognise that we do not fully represent the communities that we serve and are striving to increase the numbers of firefighters from underrepresented groups to improve us as a brigade. By sending this link out to you in advance we hope that you can share it with as many people in your communities as possible to give them the opportunity to apply. There is more information about the role of firefighter on our website: Future Firefighter (staffordshirefire.gov.uk)

This is the application link:

Wholetime Firefighter - Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service - Staffordshire Police (tal.net)

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