The Living in Our Shoes Revisited Team are continually providing briefings on their progress

Briefing One – Setting the scene

This is the first of three Briefings to provide an introduction to the Living in Our Shoes review which was conducted between 2019 and 2020, and sets the scene for a discussion of the evidence which  emerged relating to the lived experiences of Armed Forces personnel and their families.

Briefing Two – Key Themes: a place to call home; growing up in the military; partner employment; and health and wellbeing

Briefing Two highlights the main concerns which were raised during the review about the challenges relating to Service life, and summarises the actions which the review team recommended should be
taken to address them.

Briefing Three – Supporting Armed Forces Families

Briefing Three looks specifically at the support available to Armed Forces families in 2020 and the recommendations for enhancing this to better meet their needs.

Briefing Four – Tracing the approach to Armed Forces Families Policy in Defence

This Briefing traces the emergence of families policy within the single Services and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) from its origins in the 20th Century through to the present day, culminating in a description of the mechanisms that the MOD developed to respond to the issues highlighted by the original Living in Our Shoes review.