Veterans Support Centres To Open Across The Uk

The authorities has announced a awesome scheme to boost thief for UK veterans, including a web of support centres group to unfastened crossed nan country.

The rollout is portion of a caller Veterans Strategy, nan first afloat update successful 7 years, which intends to make life easier for those who’ve served successful nan equipped forces. It focuses connected improving entree to housing, healthcare, jobs and intelligence wellness support.

Celebrate, lend and support

The strategy is built astir 3 cardinal priorities.

Celebrate: Society respects those who service and person served. The benefits of subject work are recognised, and nan captious domiciled veterans play successful defending our freedoms is celebrated.

Contribute: The unsocial skills, acquisition and values of veterans are appreciated and understood. They proceed to lend to nationalist security, nan system and section communities.

Support: Veterans tin entree timely, effective and applicable thief that meets their needs, nary matter wherever they live.

More than £50 cardinal has been promised for nan project, pinch £27 cardinal disposable correct distant for section areas that want to group up charismatic veterans’ centres. The scheme, called VALOUR, will spot a web of section hubs linked to a cardinal squad astatine nan Ministry of Defence. Each centre will connection face-to-face proposal and link veterans pinch nan services they need, wherever they live.

More lodging support

The authorities says this should extremity nan “postcode lottery” wherever immoderate areas had amended thief than others. The scheme besides includes different £12 cardinal to tackle homelessness done nan ongoing Operation FORTITUDE programme, which has already helped much than 1,000 veterans find unchangeable housing.

Defence Secretary John Healey called group who person served “one of our top assets” and said nan caller attack would make judge each seasoned is “recognised, respected and supported.” The strategy has been shaped by feedback from veterans and families themselves, pinch a clear attraction connected what really works.

The first VALOUR-recognised centres are expected to unfastened successful outpouring 2026, pinch afloat sum crossed nan UK wrong 5 years. The scheme will beryllium reviewed regularly to make judge it delivers connected its promises.

While location is nary circumstantial mention of veterans who unrecorded abroad, it’s expected that they will proceed to entree nan existing support disposable to them, and it remains to beryllium seen whether they will person further support done nan caller strategy.

Backed by veterans charity

The Royal British Legion welcomed nan strategy, pinch Mark Atkinson, Director General of nan Royal British Legion, commenting “The RBL welcomes nan Government’s Veterans’ Strategy and its calls to celebrate, support and recognise nan important publication of veterans. RBL supports nan full Armed Forces Community – serving personnel, veterans, their families and nan bereaved – truthful we are delighted to spot that families are included successful respective privilege outcomes.”

The caller strategy comes arsenic Spain joined nan UK successful commemorating Remembrance Day 2025.