Shrivenham 2015
Annual guide for serving personnel and their families in the Shrivenham station detailing Local Amenities, Housing, Education & Leisure activities in the area.
Annual guide for serving personnel and their families in the Shrivenham station detailing Local Amenities, Housing, Education & Leisure activities in the area.
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Families Information Link Line (FILL)<br />
A regularly updated recorded message telephone<br />
information line for participating ships to provide families<br />
with general details of an individual unit’s deployment<br />
activities. Signal message text from the ship/RM unit<br />
is recorded by SAFAB staff and accessible day or night<br />
by families holding the relevant number. The cost of<br />
telephoning the FILL is 5p per minute, the minimum<br />
tariff that phone companies charge for the service.<br />
Commanding Officers are instructed to keep the<br />
messages to no more than 2 minutes in length.<br />
LINK Letter Scheme (LLS)<br />
LLS is a scheme through which information such as<br />
changes to ships’ programmes, details of unexpected<br />
incidents etc., can be rapidly disseminated from deployed<br />
ships or units to family and friends at home. This assists<br />
in reducing family concerns and anxiety by providing<br />
accurate and speedy news direct from source, helping<br />
to allay concerns of families in receipt of media reports<br />
or second-hand stories. Commanding Officers via their<br />
nominated Link Letter Officer decide when to activate<br />
the LLS and signal their news to the relevant SAFAB<br />
who then despatch the information by first or second<br />
class post to the nominated relatives or friends of those<br />
Service personnel who are in the scheme. All members<br />
of a unit are automatically included in the scheme unless<br />
they ‘opt out’ in writing. RM Units also operate this<br />
system when necessary.<br />
Information Sheets<br />
Some information sheets are produced and updated<br />
by SAFAB on eg.LLS, FILL and a range of other Naval<br />
and general topics of interest and relevance to Naval<br />
personnel and their families. These information sheets<br />
should be held by all ships and establishments (normally<br />
by the Unit Personnel Office) or are available direct from<br />
your nearest SAFAB office or on www.rnreference.<br />
mod.uk.<br />
Enquiries are welcome from Divisional Officers,<br />
individuals or families and can be made by a personal call,<br />
telephone, letter or fax.<br />
Out of working hours, urgent enquiries are normally<br />
answered by the Officer of the Day who will pass<br />
information to Duty NPFS staff for action as necessary.<br />
Naval Supportline<br />
A confidential and impartial telephone listening<br />
and advice service offered by specially trained<br />
civilian advisers who will discuss any issue<br />
which may causing concern or personal<br />
distress. Operators will endeavour to<br />
identify possible sources of support<br />
or resolution, but the Supportline<br />
will take no direct action. Callers<br />
may remain anonymous and no<br />
names are taken.<br />
The Station<br />
Overseas: Call UK ++44 1705 726282 & advisers will<br />
call you back.<br />
The Naval Supportline is a confidential and impartial<br />
listening and advice service for all Royal Navy/Royal<br />
Marine personnel and their families on any issue which<br />
may be causing concern, personal distress or crisis at<br />
home or at work.<br />
Trained civilian advisers will discuss in confidence<br />
with callers their concerns and identify<br />
possible sources of support or resolution<br />
where necessary.<br />
No direct action will be taken by<br />
advisers and callers can remain<br />
anonymous.<br />
The Station<br />
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