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The RAF FF's Annual Report for 2011

2011 RAF Families Federation Annual Report has now been published. Last year was a challenging one for RAF personnel and their families and the Federation team has been kept extremely busy with the many issues family members bring to our attention. Gathering the evidence and presenting it all in the hope of influencing change for the better. Our report for 2011 focuses on the post Strategic Defence & Security Review era and the impact some of those decisions is beginning to have. We comment on the launch of the Armed Forces Covenant, acutely aware of the dichotomy posed by a Government that is seeking to simultaneously reduce its Armed Forces whilst demonstrating how much it recognises the unique nature of military life and values the sacrifices made by the Armed Forces community. The report details the core themes

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Our Stories in RAF News - Isolated Overseas

Periodically in RAF News the Federation uses the evidence someone has provided to illustrate a topic of concern. The cases illustrate where policy is deemed as not quite fair or is outdated, or where there is disadvantage purely because that someone is a member of an RAF family. This time we feature a lady who has accompanied her husband on an overseas posting but now feels isolated and abandoned by the RAF. She says they were ill-prepared for the challenges that faced them and didn't realise how difficult it all would be

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ERROR ON THE SITE

We apologise for log-in problems that occurred on our site over the weekend. We became aware of them this morning. Problems were rectified on the long email address: www.raf-families-federation.org.uk but persisted on the short address: www.raf-ff.org.uk Hopefully now the service is fully back to normal

The First Annual Report of the Armed Forces Covenant

First First Annual Report on the Armed Forces Covenant has been published (20 Dec). In response to the content, Dawn McCafferty, Chairman of the RAF Families Federation, said: "As an independent member of the Reference Group I urge all RAF family members to take the time to read it... Much of the responsibility for delivery of the many commitments made within the Covenant lies with Other Government Departments and the Devolved Administrations... but it is for us to provide the evidence of disadvantage or, indeed, the need for special treatment in certain circumstances... This Report has been signed off by the Secretary of State for Defence... and will, we hope, stimulate Parliamentary debate as to the progress of the Covenant and its impact on improving the lives of serving personnel, their families

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Wishing You A Very Happy Christmas

All at the RAF Families Federation wish you a Very Happy Christmas. Our thought are with all RAF Serving personnel and their family members, especially those that cannot be together at this special time. We continue to be there to give personnel and families a voice and if you think there is anything we can help you with then please do get in touch. Our office hours over the Christmas period are that we are here until cop on Fri 23 Dec 11 and reopen on Tue 3 Jan 12

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Your Evidence sent to the AFPRB

Remuneration continues to be a subject of considerable interest to RAF family members and the audiences we heard from were keen to ensure that, when the opportunity, once again, arises for future pay awards to be considered, the Armed Forces Pay Review Body (AFPRB) has the appropriate evidence to hand upon which to base their recommendations. In preparation for the Federation’s evidence session with the AFPRB, the RAF FF team compiled a comprehensive report based on evidence from RAF serving personnel and their family members who responded to the Federation surveys. We hope our evidence influences the debate and we will run further surveys in 2012 to ensure that our evidence base on all AFPRB-related matters is kept up to date despite to continuing suppression of pay

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