Resources for schools to support service children and families

Little Troopers is a charity that supports children with a parent serving in the regular or reserve British Army, Royal Navy or Royal Air Force. Support comes in various forms but predominately tangible resources to help children feel included and in control of their emotions when they have a parent serving away from the family home. 

The charity also offers some recognition schemes and events to promote re-connection of the family unit.

You can view more about the support available here: www.littletroopers.net/what-support-is-available/

Schools may be interested particularly in one of the charity's new projects, Little Troopers at School, which aims to empower parents and help schools when supporting service children. The first stage of the project has been to produce easily accessible information sheets for schools and parents on a wide range of topics including the challenges military children may face and moving schools frequently.

You can access the sheets here to download/print: www.littletroopers.net/little-troopers-at-school/ (The site requires you to register by providing an email address to gain access to the information sheets).

Schools can also sign up to the Little Troopers mailing list to receive further updates and information here

Little Troopers, and its founder, Louise Fetigan has received numerous awards for its work and is also recognised and supported by The Department for Education