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Kelly Hamid

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Seren of the month – May 2024

May 2024

SSCE Cymru have been lucky enough to work alongside Kelly since she was given responsibility of supporting Service children in Pembrokeshire County Council, around four years ago!

Kelly has been a huge advocate of the SSCE Cymru programme, as the lead contact for the local authority and line manager of the West Wales SSCE Cymru Regional School Liaison Officers (RSLOs). She has always demonstrated a huge amount of support for Service children and improving the provisions available for them in Pembrokeshire.

Kelly has utilised resources such as the Local Authority (LA) Action plan to consider the improvements and changes that could be made to the LA provisions which has embedded good practice, ensuring support for Service children in Pembrokeshire is strong now and in future years. Kelly has always been happy to share her own experiences and knowledge with other LAs across Wales and collaborate where appropriate.

Thank you for all your hard work and support!!!

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Service children’s quotes

"As soon as we get used to a house, you get moved - I’ve been to four schools and moved six times."

Aiden

"I lived in Nepal, then we went to Brunei, then Malaysia."

Ashim

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Chloe

"I’m used to moving now and mixing with the children... I’ve done it so many times, it’s just a normal thing now."

Chloe

"It's ok talking over skype and that, but sometimes you just want a hug when Dad is away."

Georgia

"I’ve enjoyed going around to lots of places around the world, it's adventurous and exciting."

Harry

"In my eyes, you have hundreds of friends in different places."

Ieuan

"My mum got a chalk board and it says how many sleeps on it with chalk, every minute it’s getting closer for him coming home."

Mia

"I don’t want him to get promoted... I want him to get promoted but I don’t want to leave."

Oliver

"I might be going to boarding school so that I don’t change schools every few years."

Ryan

"I've been to seven different schools; I’ve not stayed put in one school long enough."

Shana

"He has been away for six months and he is back for two weeks, then he goes away again."

Sianed

"My parents were in the Army. My mum is a like a nurse and my dad went to the war in Afghanistan. I actually didn’t really know what he was doing so I was like, ‘Cool Dad, go there,’ but then I found out and thought, 'Thank God he came back alive.'"

Sanjog

"He signed off last week, so he will be done by the end of this year. He’s done 24 years. I find that better because he will be around a lot. He likes watching us playing rugby, so he will get to see us more."

Lewis

"I’m going to a new place entirely. They don’t know anything about me and that’s a big restart and that’s really good for me."

Piaras

"I moved to Wales because my dad was posted in the Army. I thought I would get bullied and I was shy when you meet new people, but I made some friends."

Dan