Federation News

Please see below for our latest Federation News

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 The cases illustrate where policy is deemed as not quite fair or is outdated, or where there is disadvantage purely because that someone is a member of an RAF family.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

See full details

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

See full details

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

See full details

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

See full details

The Federation is Voicing Your Opinions

The Federation is your voice - so what has it been saying of late? In this latest Federation update we report on the high level activity of: the continuing fall-out from the SDSR; A 'Where are we Now?' on the Armed Forces Covenant and what the Federation is contributing; Our views on the review of CEA and where it is heading; Our input into the Future Accommodation Project Team; The conferences, meetings, briefings we have attended and the units we have visited. We also report on subjects being reported to us and what we are doing with the information and we give an update on our Communications strategy. It is worth having a quick scan and perhaps you too can add to our evidence by giving your opinion, as it all adds weight to the arguments we are putting forward on your behalf. Click on the brown 'Have your Say' block above. Those at the top don't want our views, they want yours

See full details

Top of Page