The SCiP Alliance – thriving lives for Service children
The Service Children’s Progression Alliance (SCiP Alliance) is the professional community supporting the children of serving and ex-UK Armed Forces personnel. We sometimes use the term "Service children" for ease, but we mean any “person whose parent, or carer, serves in the regular armed forces, or as a reservist, or has done at any point during the first 25 years of that person’s life”. We work towards a shared vision of thriving lives for Service children.

Listening...
The SCiP Alliance is led by the community for the community – all those with a stake in thriving lives for Service children – and this consultation is the annual opportunity to take the temperature of the sector and answer a few key questions to guide our future work together: what are the persisting and changing needs of the children of serving and ex-UK Armed Forces personnel? What do you need to sustain and improve your support: policy developments, research insights, practical resources, more (or different) funding, opportunities to connect and collaborate? How has the Alliance helped you and what should we do more or less of in the future?

And action…
Our previous consultations led directly to key developments in support like the expansion of the UK-wide Hub Network and new projects to extend the Thriving Lives Toolkit for schools to early years settings, colleges and universities. This year – for the first time – the consultation will include explicit investigation of the policy and funding needs in the sector. And the findings will form the only UK-wide State of the Sector report for our community, allowing us to champion our community – your work – and the remarkable children and young people we all serve, advocating for change with key senior leaders, agencies, organisations and governments.

Have your say and encourage your colleagues and partners to do the same. Thank you.

With thanks to Greenwich Hospital for funding this consultation

This consultation is being undertaken by Tiller Research Ltd on behalf of the SCiP Alliance, hosted by the University of Winchester.  Your responses are confidential, and will be combined with all responses received so that analysis and reports do not contain information that identifies any individual or organisation.  You may complete the consultation anonymously.  If you choose to provide your contact details and subsequently decide that you want to withdraw your responses from the consultation, you may do so by contacting scipconsultation@tillerresearch.co.uk