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Welcome Ian McGregor Chief Executive Poppyscotland 2
4 March 2015
Scottish Veterans – Looking to the Future Presentation to Criminal Justice Seminar 4 March 2015
Outline of Presentation • Scottish Veterans Commissioner - background • Strategy and Workplan • Looking to the Future • Veterans and the Criminal Justice system
SVC Roles • Review the support provided to veterans in Scotland, determine success (or not), find solutions and make recommendations to Ministers, Local Authorities and others • Challenge negative perceptions of veterans, promoting their skills and experience • Enhance veteran’s ability to access support services through improved information flow • Contribute to any Scottish Government review of policy towards veterans.
SVC 2015 Workplan • Formal reports on: – Lord Ashcroft’s Transition Review – Housing – Employability • Ongoing assessment of: – Information provision to veterans – The role of veterans ‘champions’ • Contribution to: – Next version of ‘ Our Commitments ’ and other policy documents
• Housing • Employment • Mental Health • Communications • Early Service Leavers • Scottish dimension to the Ashcroft Study
Looking to the Future • How are attitudes likely to change towards veterans in Scotland? • What is the role and contribution of ex- service personnel going to be in the future? • How can we make best use of veterans’ skills, attributes and experience?
Veterans in the Criminal Justice System • Why do ex-service personnel get caught up in the Criminal Justice System? • What can be done to prevent this? Are they aware of the consequences – for themselves and family? • Is there enough done to prevent them re- offending on release? What else can be done? • How do veterans react to prison? Can we offer them more while incarcerated? • How serious are we about rehabilitation and reintegrating them back into society? • How do we rate the quality of support we provide to families of convicted veterans • What do they do after prison?
VICTORIA QUAY, 2J SOUTH, EDINBURGH, EH6 6QQ T : 0131 244 7136 E : scottishveteranscommissioner@scotland.gsi.gov.uk Follow Us @scotveterancomm Join Us www.facebook.com/scottishveteranscommissioner Find Us www.gov.scot/veteranscommissioner
• Housing • Employment • Mental Health • Communications • Early Service Leavers • Scottish dimension to the Ashcroft Study
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CIVVY STREET →MILITARY→CIVVY STREET Joining Forces Preventing, Protecting and Prospering 4 March 2015 Gary Gray Head of Welfare Services Poppyscotland
UNIQUENESS OF SERVICE LIFE
WHO IS A VETERAN?
WHO IS A VETERAN? “A veteran is anyone who has served in the Armed Forces for at least one day. This service can be in the Regular Armed Forces or the Reserve. The term also applies to Merchant Seafarers or fishermen if they worked alongside the Armed Forces in conflict situations." Preventing, Protecting and Prospering
WHO IS A VETERAN?
TRANSITION
CASE STUDY Jim’s Story
SCHOOL/UPBRINGING
EARLY DAYS IN UNIFORM
OPERATIONS
BACK HOME
RESETTLEMENT "I never had any help when I left. I just left. I walked out of the front gate with my kit bag with all my civvy stuff, my campaign medal, my book, my red Army discharge book that is and that was it. I walked out of the gate, called a taxi to the station and caught a train back home. That was it. Done."
ADJUSTING TO CIVVY STREET Life Skills Education Employment Money Housing Health
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Maggie Wood Senior Social Worker and Trainer
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‘Joining Forces’ In Action Chief Inspector Craig Smith – Police Scotland Claire Williams – Armed Services Advice Project
‘Joining Forces’ In Action
‘Joining Forces’ In Action Chief Inspector Craig Smith – Police Scotland Claire Williams – Armed Services Advice Project
What does the CAB service mean to you?
ASAP Service Aim To deliver advice, support and information to members of the Armed Forces Community Delivered through Citizens Advice Bureaux in Scotland.
National helpline 0845 231 0300
ASAP Regions • Aberdeen and • Inverness, Moray and Aberdeenshire Nairn • Argyll and Bute • Lanarkshire • Edinburgh and • Renfrewshire • Stirling, Lothians • Falkirk Clackmannanshire • Fife • Tayside
How do we work with our clients?
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