Snapshot Housing
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to housing and accommodation among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people and families. The Snapshot sets out policy responses and current structures …
Keyword: Working with veterans and families
Snapshot Housing Bullets
This bullets summary provides key points from the Snapshot Housing, which summarises key themes and issues relating to housing and accommodation among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people …
Snapshot Education and Training Bullets
This Bullets summary provides key points from the Education Snapshot, which summarises key themes and issues relating to housing and accommodation among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people …
Snapshot Education and Training
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to education among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people and families. The Snapshot sets out current structures of support and policy responses, …
Snapshot Employment
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to employment among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people and families. The Snapshot sets out current structures of support and policy responses, …
Criminal Justice System Animation
This short animation outlines key facts and figures related to the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for the UK’s Armed Forces community. The video serves as an introduction to the CJS …
New Hub Tag: “working with veterans and families”
The VFR Hub’s research repository is searchable in various ways. One way is through the use of tags and key word searches. A new key word phrase has been applied …
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A Scottish housing guide for people leaving the Armed Forces & ex-Service personnel
This guide, produced by the Scottish Government, provides information on housing options for those in the Armed Forces community, recognising the difference in need for members/families of the AF community …
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Housing Animation
This short animation outlines key facts and figures related to housing for the UK’s Armed Forces community. The video serves as an introduction to Snapshot Housing, which is a plain …
Forces Connect South West Armed Forces Covenant Project
This report details the work and outputs of the South West Covenant Project. This Project was born from the region’s local authorities (LA) agreeing a joint approach to improve the delivery …
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Changing Our Approach to Veterans’ Employment
This report provides a summary of the FiMT summit on ‘Transforming Perceptions and Unlocking Ex-Services Talent’.
Employing Female Service Leavers – Employer Brief
This document provides a short briefing for employers on the Female Service Leavers and Employment report. The full report examines transition for female Service leavers moving from the Armed Forces …
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The Nation’s Duty: challenging society’s disservice to a new generation of veterans
This research explores the experiences and needs of veterans accessing support from SSAFA.
Departures: Families Transition Guide
This guide has been developed to offer information, written specifically for families. It covers areas highlighted as needed by families and Service personnel who participated in previous research into family …
Strategy for our Veterans. UK Government Consultation Response
This report details responses to a UK Government Consultation following publication of the Strategy for our Veterans report in November 2018. In support of the Strategy, the UK, Scottish and Welsh …
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RAF Dispersed Families: summary briefing paper
The RAF Families Federation provides all RAF personnel and their families – Regular and Reserve, single or married – with timely and professional support, assistance and an independent voice regarding …
Military Advocacy Service: Interim Evaluation Report
The Military Advocacy Service (MAS) provides specialist provision for military veterans and their families. This evaluation aims to gather findings and evidence around the effectiveness of the MAS.
Positive Futures – Getting Transition Right in Scotland
This report aims to offer a strategic overview of transition from the Armed Forces against the current economic, demographic and social backdrop in Scotland, bringing up-to-date and developing the work …
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Bringing the Armed Forces Covenant to Life – Evaluation Report
This report explores the results of a consultation project carried out by a partnership of UK borough councils into how the commitment to the covenant is being delivered within their …
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JSP 100 Defence Holistic Transition Policy – Part 1 & Part 2 Combined: Directive and Guidance
This publication outlines and details the UK’s tri-Service holistic transition policy and procedures. This document exists in tandem with JSP 534 which details resettlement procedures and employment support across Defence and …
Armed Forces Covenant Survey for Rutland, South Kesteven and Harborough
This report details responses to a survey carried out on the experiences and needs of the Armed Forces community living in the Rutland, South Kesteven and Harborough areas of the …
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Health and social care needs of the Armed Forces Community in Northamptonshire
This survey was carried out on behalf of of the Armed Forces Covenant Northamptonshire, to find out more about the health and social care needs of the Armed Forces community …
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Focus On: Armed Forces Charities in the Criminal Justice System
The purpose of this report is to hold up an objective mirror to the UK armed forces charity sector and, for the first time, provide an account of the criminal …
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Finding the Forgotten: Motivating Military Veterans to Register with a Primary Healthcare Practice
This paper explores how to motivate veterans to notify primary healthcare staff of their armed forces status, or register with a general practitioner, and to improve primary healthcare staff’s understanding of …
The Armed Forces Community Healthcare navigation Project: Feasibility Study
This feasibility study of the Armed Forces Community Healthcare navigation Project assessed the project delivery model to understand if it was replicable. It also explored what adaptations would be needed …
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A UK guide to working with Veterans in custody
This guide provides information on some of the issues veterans might face and some of the military structures, customs and phrases that matter to ex-Service personnel but can be baffling …
The Military Human (TM): Understanding Military Culture & Transition
This document includes pre-reading material, research and tools that provide background understanding to the Military Human CPD course, available in the UK as part of York St John University’s The …
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The South Yorkshire Armed Forces Covenant Project Model
This report details the activities and outcomes of the South Yorkshire Armed Forces Covenant Project. The Executive Summary of this report is also available via the Hub.
Military Families and Transition
This report looks at the potential barriers UK families face to a smooth transition to civilian life and future employment.
Snapshot Military Families Bullets
This bullets summary provides key points from Snapshot Military Families, which summarises key themes and issues relating to families within the UK military community.
Snapshot Military Families
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to families within the UK military community. The Snapshot sets out policy responses and current structures of support, presenting research evidence where available.
‘It’s nice to just be you’: The influence of the employment experiences of UK military spouses during accompanied postings on well-being
This paper explores how spouse well-being is influenced by employment experiences.
Physical Health Bullets
This Bullets summary provides key points from Snapshot Physical Health, which summarises key themes and issues relating to physical health among UK serving personnel, veterans and their families.
Snapshot Physical Health
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to physical health among UK serving personnel, veterans and their families. The Snapshot sets out current structures of support and policy responses, presenting research …
DSC Focus On: UK Armed Forces Charities – Sector Trends
Examining trends in the armed forces charity sector can help us to understand not just the current size and shape of the sector, but also how the sector has changed; …
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The Experience of Parental Absence in Royal Navy and Royal Marines Families
This report explores the impact of parental absence on the children of people in the Armed Forces.
Survey Snapshot: Benefits and Challenges of Dispersed Living
The RAF Families Federation’s Dispersed Families Project utilised a range of research methods to examine the experiences of RAF families who live away from their Parent Unit. This snapshot report …
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Are veterans different? Understanding veterans’ help-seeking behaviour for alcohol problems
This article explores help-seeking behaviours in veterans and seeks to understand why veterans are either reluctant or have difficulty in accessing help for alcohol problems.
An exploration of how UK veterans diagnosed with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder experience therapy
This thesis explores the lived experience of veterans diagnosed with combat-related post traumatic stress disorder and their descriptions and experiences of therapy.
Exploring the health risks of help-seeking military veterans living in different parts of the UK
This paper explores health differences for veterans living in different parts of the UK, in order to support service planning and provision.
Utilisation of the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant in NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups across England: a freedom of information investigation
This article seeks to explore the UK’s National Health Service provision for veterans and the commissioning of veteran-specific services by Clinical Commissioning Groups.
Benefit Not Burden (UK)
This report details a piece of research that explores how to improve the delivery of organisational pledges made under the Armed Forces Covenant.
UK South West Region Armed Forces Covenant Champions Conference 2018 Report
This report details the aims and outcomes of the 2018 conference held in the South West Region of the UK, as part of the commitment to championing the Armed Forces …
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Action research on the presence and needs of the Armed Forces Community in the South West of England
This report details research commissioned by councils in the South West of England (UK) to enhance understanding of the presence and needs of the local Armed Forces Community (AFC) in …
Families Federation Factsheet: Armed Forces Information
This fact sheet provides key figures and information to enhance understanding of the UK Armed Forces, based on data collected by the three Families Federations.
RAuxF Survey – RAF Reservists
This report explores the findings of a survey of RAF reservists in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. The survey sought to understand the experience of being a reservist.
Living in survey
This report focuses on single RAF personnel who are ‘living-in’. It is a summary of survey evidence into the experiences of these personnel, and outlines some important issues to tackle …
Snapshot Criminal Justice System Bullets
This Bullets summary provides key points from the Snapshot Criminal Justice System, which summarises key themes and issues relating to housing and accommodation among UK serving personnel and veterans, including …
Snapshot Criminal Justice System
This Snapshot summarises themes and issues relating to the Criminal Justice System among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people and families. The Snapshot sets out current structures of support …
Evaluation of the Veterans’ Universal Passport
This report combines two separate evaluation reports of the Veterans’ Universal Passport (VUP) pilot project, conducted by the Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research (VFI) at Anglia Ruskin …
UK public perceptions of veterans and the armed forces
This YouGov report explores UK public perceptions of veterans, gained through both interviewing and survey responses.
UK Veterans Strategy 2018
This Strategy sets an enduring Vision and Principles for the whole of the UK and is applicable across all sectors of life: public, corporate, charitable and individual. There are five …
Lifting the Lid on Transition: The family experience and the support they need
This report adds a family perspective to the transition evidence base, building understanding of the family’s experience of transition, and suggests how families can be supported through being equipped with …
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Self-employment and the Armed Forces Community
The Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, QinetiQ and X-Forces Enterprise were commissioned by Forces in Mind Trust to understand what more could be done to support …
Snapshot Employment Bullets
This Bullets summary provides key points from the Employment Snapshot, which summarises key themes and issues relating to housing and accommodation among UK serving personnel and veterans, including single people …
The South Yorkshire Local Authorities Armed Forces project first year Impact Report
The purpose of this report is to record and assess the level of ‘understanding of military culture and transition’ staff have, ‘pre and post’ attendance of the Military Human: Understanding …
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Our Community – Our Covenant – Improving the delivery of local Covenant pledges
The Forces in Mind Trust and the Local Government Association commissioned Shared Intelligence to carry out research into ways of improving the local delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant. The …
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The Royal British Legion Mentoring Pilot Project
The aim of this pilot was to enable Service leavers and veterans of working age to have help in making the transition to civilian employment or in moving to a …
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Evaluation of the West Midlands Housing Scheme for Armed Forces Veterans – Wolverhampton
This report relates the findings of an evaluation of the Veterans Housing Service.
Leaving The Armed Forces and Living In North Wales
This is a lay-friendly version of the research report ‘Leaving The Armed Forces and Living as a Civilian,’ which can be found here. This study was carried out by Glyndwr …
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Leaving The Armed Forces and Living as a Civilian
Glyndwr University was funded by Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) to conduct this exploratory study of identity and transition from the Armed Forces to civilian life. Using the premise of …
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Exploring the Need for a Veterans’ Centre in Northern Ireland
The aim of this research was to gain insight into the perspectives of veterans and service providers in Northern Ireland, regarding the potential need for a dedicated Veterans’ Centre.
Well-being Interventions for Armed Forces Personnel Moving back to Civilian Life
This summary document accompanies a systematic review that can be found here.
Veterans in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in England and Wales
A paper which analyses the number of veterans in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in England and Wales.
Military spousal/partner employment: Identifying the barriers and support required
Research into the barriers that military spouses and partners face when seeking and retaining employment, along with suggested solutions.
Evaluation of the Ministry of Defence Spouse Employment Support Trial
This report details the outcomes of an evaluation of the employment support package offered by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to spouses of serving military personnel. The research sought …
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Cobseo Members’ Survey
The survey underpinning this report was created with the aim of allowing Cobseo to understand the views and experience of its members. This resulting report contains insights on key areas …
Focus On: Armed Forces Charities’ Mental Health Provision
This report provides an overview of the mental health provision made by armed forces charities registered across the UK. It gives insight into mental health provision, different types of service …
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Focus On: Armed Forces Charities’ Housing Provision
This report gives an overview of the provision of accommodation services, and other relevant support, which help members of the armed forces community to secure and maintain suitable housing. The report …
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The veterans community – employability, skills and learning
This is the third report from the Scottish Veterans Commissioner advising Scottish Ministers on improving employment and learning opportunities for veterans in Scotland.
National Housing Pathway for Ex-Service Personnel
This document sets out the pathway for meeting the housing needs of former members of the armed forces who will be resettling in Wales. In recognition of their service to …
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Report on the Provision of Information on Housing for Service Leavers and Veterans in Scotland
Service personnel – no matter how long they have been in uniform – undergo a fundamental change in their circumstances when they leave the Army, Navy or Air Force. In …
Scottish Government support for Veterans and the Armed Forces Community in Scotland
This document sets out current achievements and future priorities, and highlights the work that the Scottish Government is taking forward to respond to the recommendations made in the Scottish Veterans …
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The Experience of Homeless Ex-Service Personnel in London
This report details research that aimed to assess the scale and nature of the issue of homeless ex-Service personnel in London and evaluate the impact of initiatives developed by the …
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Offending behaviour, mental health and welfare needs of veterans in liaison and diversion services
This research explores the patterns of offending and mental health problems of ex-Service personnel who enter the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Identified here are differences in the types of mental health …
Housing options for serving and ex-military personnel
This House of Commons (UK) briefing paper outlines the housing options open to serving and ex-military personnel, but does not cover service accommodation provided by the Ministry of Defence.
A guide to housing options in England for ex-Service personnel
This guide has been developed to help frontline advisers working in local authorities and the advice sector in England, to advise ex-Service personnel and their families when dealing with housing …
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Homeless Veterans in London: Investigating Housing Responsibilities
This report presents a comprehensive review of the law and policy relating to homeless veterans, drawing on research into homelessness. Also included are recommendations as to how housing services could …
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Veterans’ Health & Wellbeing: A Distinctive Scottish Approach
This report assesses the health and wellbeing services available to veterans living in Scotland. It sets out recommendations to the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland for improving the experience of …
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Addressing the knowledge gap: sexual violence and harassment in the UK Armed Forces
Sexual violence in the military is increasingly seen in the media, from online news to TV documentaries. Despite this there is very little published research available in the UK that …
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Transition to Civilian Life, ‘The Emotional Pathway’
This is an information sheet, produced by The British Army, to help Service leavers and their families understand better the emotional aspects of transition and prepare to cope with them …
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Meeting the Needs of Commonwealth Personnel and Families: A Map of Service Provision
This report considers the extent to which current service provision is meeting the needs of Commonwealth Personnel, veterans and their families. The report focuses on data collected by survey from …
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Accommodation for Single Veterans: Developing Housing and Support Pathways
This research report focuses on the housing pathways of single veterans, and the role of the veteran accommodation sector within these pathways. It examines the housing pathways of single veterans …
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Integrating electronic healthcare records of armed forces personnel: Developing a framework for evaluating health outcomes in England, Scotland and Wales
At present, NHS patient systems, called Electronic Healthcare Records, are developed to national Governments and are managed separately. This means it is not possible to obtain a National picture of …
Deployment to Employment
This report sets out what is currently known about the state of veterans’ employment, based on interviews with leading stakeholders and a review of the available literature related to employment …
Focus On: Armed Forces Charities’ Physical Health Provision
This research maps the physical health support offered by the charity sector to the Armed Forces community.
Developing mental health services for veterans in England engagement report
This report explores the need for and engagement with mental health services for veterans within the NHS. The report details the structure of an engagement, including a questionnaire, that was …
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Supporting & Serving Military Veterans in Northern Ireland
This research reports on a study into the health and wellbeing of Northern Irish veterans over the course of four years. It seeks to scope existing services that support the …
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Health, welfare and social needs of the Armed Forces community: a qualitative study
This qualitative research aims to provide thorough exploration into the health, welfare and social needs of the Armed Forces community.
Profile of the Ex-Service Community in the UK
Report by the Royal British Legion which provides an overview of the demographic identity of the ex-Service community in the UK.
Lost Voices: A Royal British Legion Report on Hearing Problems among Service Personnel and Veterans
This report explores issues surrounding hearing problems among Service personnel and veterans.
Legion welfare in the 2010s: a decade of change
The purpose of this study is to inform The Royal British Legion’s strategic planning for the provision of health and welfare in the coming decade. The research and analysis was …
Honoring the Armed Services Community
The Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) in partnership with the Royal British Legion has undertaken a study into the public services that local authorities provide for members of the Armed …
The New Front line: Voices of Veterans in Need
This report surveyed nearly 1,000 veterans with the aim to discover the issues faced by younger veterans in the UK.
Renewing Our Commitments
This publication reaffirms Scotland’s commitment to support our Armed Forces community – Service personnel, veterans and families. It recognises some major achievements in supporting the Armed Forces community and sets out …
Veteran offenders in Cheshire: Making sense of the ‘noise’
This article discusses how veteran offenders are managed in the community using the experience of Cheshire Probation Trust’s journey to date to create discussions and encourage debates that are relevant …
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A UK Household Survey of the Ex-Service Community
This comprehensive report summarises the size, profile and needs of the ex-service community in 2014, and is an update on the 2005 study. The report includes the key findings but …
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Employment in Mind: The Poppy Factory employability service and veterans with mental health conditions
This report reviews the evidence about how to support Armed Forces veterans with mental health conditions to move into paid employment, and evaluates The Poppy Factory’s employability service.
Health and welfare of the ex-Service community in Scotland 2014
This report summarises the size, demographic profile and welfare needs of the Scotland ex-Service community in 2014. The results are drawn from a face-to-face, in-home survey of over 20,000 UK …
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Meeting the Housing and Support Needs of Single Veterans in Great Britain
This report explores the level and nature of demand for accommodation and housing related support for veterans in England, Scotland and Wales and considers how best to meet these needs in order …
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Our Community – Our Covenant – Improving the delivery of local Covenant pledges (Second Edition)
The Forces in Mind Trust and the Local Government Association commissioned Shared Intelligence to carry out research into ways of improving the local delivery of the Armed Forces Covenant. The …
2013 Transition Mapping Study Evaluation Report January 2017
In 2013, the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) published and launched the Transition Mapping Study (TMS). The study was commissioned to develop understanding of the transition process for Service personnel …
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Evaluation of the Airing Pain radio series discussing the effects of chronic pain on ex-military personnel
The charity Pain Concern produced three episodes of their Airing Pain radio programme focusing on chronic pain amongst veterans of the Armed Forces. An evaluation of this veterans mini-series was …
Final Report – Project Nova: A Pilot Study to Support Veterans in the Criminal Justice System
Project Nova is a pilot model of an intervention to support veterans moving through the criminal justice system. This report evaluates the engagement and impact of Project Nova.
Sector Insight – Armed Forces Charities Project Evaluation
This report evaluates the Armed Forces Charities Project (AFCP). The AFCP comprises the Sector Insight: UK Armed Forces Charities report and the associated website, www.armedforcescharities.org.uk and ran from November 2013 to …
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Profile Provision for Armed Forces Veterans under Probation Supervision
This report examines the current state of services for veterans under probation service in England and Wales.
Call To Mind: Scotland
This report provides the findings from a review of the mental and related health needs of veterans in Scotland. The Call to Mind: Scotland report outlines the positive work that …
Gambling Problems in UK Armed Forces Veterans: Preliminary Findings
For many former members of the Armed Forces, the transition from active service to civilian life can be challenging: it is well known, for instance, that transitioning Armed Forces veterans …
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Combat Experiences and their Relationship to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters in UK Military Personnel Deployed to Afghanistan
This study examines the association between three types of combat exposure and PTSD symptoms; participation in violent combat, proximity to wounding or death, and encountering explosive devices. This is in order …
The Ex-Service Community: A Household Survey 2014
The Royal British Legion report which provides the results of their comprehensive survey into the needs of the ex-Service community in the UK.
The Educational Attainment of Army Children
The main aim of this report is to compare educational attainment of Army children compared to non-Army children. To do this, the report consists of the finding of 3 research …
The Veterans’ Transition Review
A review of the policies in place (2014) regarding Service Leavers’ transition to civilian life, the provision made by the state and others, and the practical experiences of those leaving …