Forces in Mind Trust has awarded £16,125 to Shared Intelligence to produce an updated Armed Forces Covenant Toolkit.
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise by the nation that those who have served in the Armed Forces, and their families, are treated fairly. The Armed Forces Covenant Toolkit was developed during the first iteration of the Our Community, Our Covenant series back in 2016, and has been used by local government and other public services as a guide to implementing policies and practice that uphold the Armed Forces Covenant. The last iteration of this toolkit was published in 2022 alongside the Decade of the Covenant report.
Since then, several changes to the public services landscape have reshaped support for the Armed Forces community, such as the implementation of the Armed Forces Covenant Duty(1), which places a legal requirement on local government to pay due regard to the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant. The new toolkit will be informed by the ongoing Our Community Our Covenant and Beyond(2) interviews with stakeholders, the full findings of which are due to report in autumn 2025. As part of the update, the team will convene an expert group, made up of local Armed Forces co-ordinators, to help define the scope and direction of the update to ensure that it as useful as possible for local authorities in helping them to deliver their commitments under the Covenant.
