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ABF The Soldiers' Charity

ABF The Soldiers’ Charity is the national charity of the British Army, providing a lifetime of support to soldiers, veterans and their immediate families when they are in need.
www.soldierscharity.org

Armed Forces Covenant

The Armed Forces Liaison Officers help implement the commitments made in the covenant – providing support to our Armed Forces community, including serving Regulars, Reserves, veterans and their families.
www.armedforcescovenant.gov.uk

An Invisible Man

This is a theatre and media arts company committed to making work that makes a difference.
www.aninvisibleman.co.uk

Armed Forces Education Trust

The Armed Forces Education Trust is a charity that supports children and young adults whose education has been compromised or put at risk as a result of parents’ past or current service in the Armed Forces.
www.armedforceseducation.org

Army Families Federation (AFF)

The Army Families Federation (AFF) is the independent voice of Army personnel and their families. We work to improve the quality of life for the Army family, wherever you are in the world.
www.aff.org.uk

Army Welfare Service (AWS)

The purpose of AWS Community Support is to support resilience within the military community by creating a range of needs led fun, positive and safe and accessible informal educational experiences for children, young people, families and serving personnel.
www.army.mod.uk

Association of Directors of Education in Scotland (ADES)

The ADES National Education and Transitions Officer (NETO) will work with Scottish local authorities, their schools, Children’s Services partners, third-sector partners, and Armed Forces services to enhance policy and practice which will take into account the unique features affecting the education of Service children.
www.ades.scot/ForcesChildren

Association of Directors of Education in Wales (ADEW)

ADEW is the professional group of local authority officers accountable for statutory education functions in each of the Local Authorities in Wales.
www.wlga.wales/adew

Blesma – The Limbless Veterans

Since 1932, Blesma has been the only national Armed Forces charity that supports limbless veterans for the duration of their lives.
www.blesma.org

Books Council of Wales

The Books Council of Wales is a national charity which supports and develops the publishing industry in Wales.
www.llyfrau.cymru

Challenge Wales

This is an international award-winning sail-training charity which operates the Challenge Wales tall ship (a 72-foot round-the-world racing yacht) and Adventure Wales (a 60-foot two-masted schooner).
www.challengewales.org

Change Step

Change Step offers effective support for veterans/ex-Service personnel, their families and carers in Wales – enabling them to access vital support services and tackle serious stress and related issues.
www.changestepwales.co.uk

Children’s Commissioner for Wales

The Children’s Commissioner for Wales is the independent champion for children and young people in Wales.
www.childcomwales.org.uk

ColegauCymru

ColegauCymru is a post-16 education registered charity that promotes the public benefit of further education in Wales. It is a not-for-profit member-led body.
www.colleges.wales

Council for Wales of Voluntary Youth Services (CWVYS)

CWVYS is the independent representative body for the voluntary youth work sector in Wales.
www.cwvys.org.uk

Defence Children Services

Defence Children Services (DCS) has responsibility for the functions, in support of service families related to education and care.
www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-children-services-dcs

Education Advisory Team

The Education Advisory Team (EAT) (UK), is part of DCS. It provides professional information, advice and guidance regarding the education of Service Children in the UK.
www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-children-services-dcs

Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA)

The ELSA project was designed to build the capacity of schools to support the emotional needs of their pupils from within their own resources.
www.elsanetwork.org

Estyn

Estyn is led by His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales and inspects quality and standards.
www.estyn.gov.wales

Forces Children Scotland

Forces Children Scotland supports over 12,500 children and young people from armed forces and veteran families across Scotland to realise their potential and thrive.
www.forceschildrenscotland.org.uk

Forces Children’s Education

The Scottish Government, local authorities and schools are working hard to ensure that moving to Scotland has a positive effect on the educational outcomes of children from Armed Forces families.
www.forceschildrenseducation.org.uk

Forces Children’s Trust

This charity is devoted to working together to help children in need whose parents are deceased, or have sustained life-changing injuries, whilst serving as a member of the British Armed Forces or civilian forces.
www.forceschildrenstrust.org.uk

Forces Fitness

Forces Fitness is a multi-award-winning business that has worked in partnership with multiple schools, colleges, Universities, organisations and sports clubs across England and Wales.
www.forcesfitness.co.uk

Forces in Mind Trust

Forces in Mind Trust funds targeted evidence generation and influencing activities that underpin policy-making and service delivery in order to enable Service personnel and Service families to lead successful civilian lives.
www.fim-trust.org

Hamish & Milo Wellbeing Resources

Hamish & Milo is a comprehensive emotions curriculum and range of SEMH intervention programmes, high quality resources, training, supervision and impact reporting dashboard to support a whole school graduated response for children, especially those with SEMH difficulties.
www.hamishandmilo.org

Health Boards in Wales

Healthcare in Wales is delivered through a variety of providers, ranging from Local Health Boards and NHS Trusts to community pharmacies and opticians.

Help for Heroes

In Wales, Help for Heroes’ Community Recovery Team delivers holistic support to veterans and Armed Forces personnel who have been affected by their military Service. 
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

Home Start Cymru

Home Start Cymru offers free, confidential support and practical help to parents of young children living across Wales who are going through a difficult time.
www.homestartcymru.org.uk

Huggable Heroes

Reinforcing Bonds and Providing Comfort During Separation
www.huggableheroes.uk

Jon Egging Trust

The Jon Egging Trust works with groups of young people referred through schools in North Wales.
www.joneggingtrust.org.uk

Lego Therapy

LEGO® based therapy is a collaborative, play-based social skills intervention for children with autism and related conditions.
www.g2gcommunities.org/lego-education/therapy

Little Troopers

Little Troopers is a tri-service children’s charity supporting all children with one or both parents serving in the British Armed Forces.
www.littletroopers.net

Local Authority School Admissions

Please click on the relevant Local Authority link to see admissions information. 

Medr

Medr will be responsible for promoting, funding, and regulating tertiary education and research in Wales.
https://www.medr.cymru/en/

Meic Cymru

Meic is the helpline service for children and young people in Wales up to the age of 25.
www.meiccymru.org

Mentally Healthy Schools

Mentally Healthy Schools brings together quality-assured information, advice and resources to help primary, secondary and FE settings understand and promote children’s mental health and wellbeing.
www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/

Motivational Preparation College for Training (MPCT)

Since its formation in 1999, the MPCT has been dedicated to offering opportunities to young people through training and education.
www.mpct.co.uk

NSPCC Learning

Safeguarding support, guidance and training from the UK's leading children's charity to help you protect the children and young people you work or volunteer with.
www.nspcc.org.uk/learning

Naval Children's Charity

The Naval Children’s Charity,  help to support children up to and including the age of 25 from Naval families, serving and ex-serving, reserves and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, financially, holistically and also with their ‘Life Chances’ programmes, giving all Naval children the chance to not only survive but thrive!
www.navalchildrenscharity.org.uk

Naval Families Federation

The NFF works to ensure that all serving members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, and their family members, can have their views represented to those in positions of power to effect positive change.
www.nff.org.uk

Never Such Innocence

Never Such Innocence provides tools for children and young people (9-18) to reflect on the realities of war and conflict. 
www.neversuchinnocence.com

NurtureUK

Nurture is a tried and tested way of relating to children that helps them develop vital social skills, confidence and self-esteem, and become more able to learn.
www.nurtureuk.org

Place2Be

This organisation provides emotional and therapeutic services in primary and secondary schools, building children’s resilience through talking, creative work and play. 
www.place2be.org.uk

RAF Valley Welfare Support

RAF Valley Welfare/HiVE supports and has information covering the following areas: childcare, housing, health and welfare, chaplains, sports, social, children and young people.
www.raf.mod.uk

Reading Force

Using books and resources to bring Forces children and families closer together, this organisation’s shared reading initiative encourages families to read, talk and scrapbook about a book, improving communication and enriching their relationships with books and each other. 
www.readingforce.org.uk

Relate Cymru

Relate is the UK's largest provider of relationship support, and in 2022/23 they helped over two million people of all ages, backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities to strengthen their relationships. 
www.relate.org.uk/centre/relate-cymru

Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Association (RFCA) for Wales

The association provides support services directly to the Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve, Army Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force and their Cadets.
www.wales-rfca.org

Royal Air Force (RAF) Families Federation

The RAF Families Federation works to improve quality of life for the RAF family around the world – at work or at home.  
www.raf-ff.org.uk

Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (RAFBF) is the RAF’S leading welfare charity and spends over £17 million per year meeting the needs of the RAF Family.
www.rafbf.org

Royal Navy Family and People Support (RN FPS)

RN FPS delivers a range of services to support Service Personnel & their Families wherever you live or are based in the UK and Overseas.
www.royalnavy.mod.uk

SNAP Cymru

SNAP provides information, advice and support for parents, children and young people who have, or may have, special educational needs or disabilities.
www.snapcymru.org

SO FIT group

SO FIT group LTD are multi award winning health and wellbeing consultants. 
www.sofitgroup.co.uk

SSAFA, the Armed Forces Charity

SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, has been providing lifelong support to Service personnel and their families since 1885. 
www.ssafa.org.uk

Scotty’s Little Soldiers

Scotty’s Little Soldiers is a charity dedicated to supporting children and young people, 0 to 25 years, who have experienced the death of a parent who served in the British Armed Forces.  
www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk

Service Children in State Schools (SCISS)

Service Children in State Schools (SCISS) is a voluntary affiliated network of state-maintained schools in England that have any number of Service children on roll.
www.sciss.org.uk

Service Children’s Progression Alliance (SCiP Alliance)

The SCiP Alliance is a partnership of organisations focused on improving outcomes for children from Armed Forces families.
www.scipalliance.org

Sweet Education

Sweet Education resources help secondary school children to achieve a BTEC Level 1 or 2 qualification in Personal Growth and Wellbeing. 
www.sweet.education

TGP Cymru – Restorative Approaches Veterans and Family Services

Helping veterans/Service leavers and their families to identify their strengths, skills, resources and needs, TGP Cymru will enable and empower veterans/ex-Service personnel and each family member to communicate safely, understand each other, build relationships, resolve conflicts and make plans to support positive sustainable changes in the lives of those most affected.
www.tgpcymru.org.uk

The Family Foundation

The Family Foundation is a registered charity that operates across Wales.
www.thefamilyfoundation.co.uk

The Royal British Legion (RBL)

The RBL is at the heart of a national network that supports our Armed Forces community. 
www.britishlegion.org.uk

The Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC)

The RNRMC is the principal charity of the Royal Navy. We are at the heart of supporting our Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel and their families, past, present and future.
www.rnrmc.org.uk

The Wave Project

The Wave Project - the world's first 'surf therapy' course funded by a government health service was founded in September 2010.
www.waveproject.co.uk

Thrive®

Thrive® promotes children and young people’s positive mental health by helping adults know how to be and what to do in response to their differing and sometimes distressed behaviour. 
www.thriveapproach.com

Trauma Informed Schools Wales

Trauma Informed Schools (TISUK&TISWales) aims to deliver high quality training which enables practitioners to create safe, supportive environments in schools, communities, and other organisations. 
traumainformedschools.wales

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

The UNCRC is the basis of all of UNICEF’s work. 
www.unicef.org.uk

Urdd

Urdd Gobaith Cymru is a National Voluntary Youth Organisation with over 55,000 members between the ages of 8–25. 30% of all Welsh speakers in Wales aged between 8-25 are Urdd members. 
www.urdd.cymru/cy

Veterans’ Gateway

Veterans’ Gateway is made up of a consortium of organisations and Armed Forces charities, including the RBL, SSAFA, Poppy Scotland, Combat Stress and Connect Assist. 
www.veteransgateway.org

Wales HIVE HUB

On behalf of the Chain of Command Army HIVE delivers information support for the whole military community on a wide variety of topics affecting your everyday service and personal life, including education, relocation, accommodation, health & wellbeing, childcare, deployment, resettlement and the local area.

Welsh Government

The Welsh Government is the devolved Government for Wales. They work with key partners including local government, charities, the MoD and other stakeholders to support the Armed Forces community in Wales.
www.gov.wales

Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)

The WLGA represents the interests of local government and promotes local democracy in Wales.
www.wlga.wales

Woody’s Lodge

Woody’s Lodge is a social hub, which guides veterans to the help & support they need to re-engage with their families and communities. 
www.woodyslodge.org

YEPS - (for Rhondda Cynon Taf)

The Youth Engagement and Participation Service (YEPS) provides the statutory Youth Service for Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council.
www.yeps.wales/#lang_choose

YoungMinds

The YoungMinds website provides a wide variety of information and advice designed to help improve the mental health of young people up to the age of 25. 
www.youngminds.org.uk

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

"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’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

"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

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