Service Children Support Network

Sharing best Practice to Support Service Children

The results are in!

07 September 2012

The judges certainly had their work cut out trying to choose between all the wonderful pictures entered this year! But at last SCSN are delighted to announce the results and publish the winning entries. Working in collaboration with the RAF Museum, thes competition was open to all Service Children (a child who has a parent or guardian who is a serving member of HM Forces or the Reserve Forces of the UK) up to a maximum of 18 years of age. The winners were invited to attend the prize giving at the RAF Museum in August.

SCSN Annual Conference

07 September 2012

The SCSN Annual Conference will take place on Tuesday 27th November 2012 at the Warwickshire County Cricket Club, The County Ground, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7QU.
Coffee and Registration from 09.30 Finish 16.00
This one-day National Conference will focus on the impacts of mobility and transitions on Service children and their families and will examine how schools, local authorities and other professionals
can help to mitigate them effectively. Download Booking Form.

An experience not to be missed!

24 June 2012

SCSN was very pleased to welcome our first intern this year. Katherine Groveshas just completed her PGCE Secondary at Reading University and jumped at the chance to serve her further development placement with SCSN. Katherine was certainly thrown into the deep end worked very closely with Joy throughout her time with us. She was a pleasure to work with (and we hope she enjoyed the experience too!). To read about her time with SCSN (in her own words) please click on the link below.

A New Resource!

11 August 2012

This new resource has been put together with the specific aim of helping fellow professionals understand the issues that Service families and their children face. It discusses Mobility and Transition, Parental Deployment on Military Operations, Continuity of Education and a number of other significant issues that they are likely to encounter
when working with Service children. Supported by research and case studies, it describes examples of best practice, offers practical advice and outlines strategies that have been shown to be effective when
working in this field.

Parental Support

The primary aim of SCSN is to work with the professionals who support Service families and their children. We are not a Service welfare organisation although we will always help where we can. However, we continue to receive enquiries from Service families who are unsure of where to go to access the specific support they need.