MOD Youth Voice residential 2022
The MOD held a Tri - Service Youth Voice Residential in July 2022. Here's what the young people said.
Missing friends and moving are their key issues.
Solutions might include:
Research into single parent households:
- Who are the audience - military families, serving personnel, charities, CO/Becky, "Big Guns"
- What? Create a national survey in order to develop better working arrangements for serving folks, and to improve communication within families.
- When? In the next six months, with change being delivered in 2 + years time.
- Why? To understand the needs of military children in order to help them.
- What? Time off school to spend time with family member before and after deployment.
- What? Free wifi all round so it is easier to contact parents and free video calls.
- Who is our audience? The Minister for Education, young people under 18 and the schools.
- Why do we want to do this? To provide more bonding time with family members, improve the mental wellbeing of military families; the time missed could affect the relationship of the child/teenager and the parent who goes away.
- When - how long will it take to do? Approx 3+ years
Support for parents and families:
- What? Better communication with the deployed parent. The ability to meet people before the move and a welcome leaflet by young people for young people to help them get to know an area.
- Who are the audience? Youth workers, parents and civilian parents, young people and schools.
- Where? Home, Schools and websites.
- Why? To increase support to particularly young people.
- When? Youth voice group members to go back to their areas and develop their own welcome leaflets by Christmas 2022.
