Motion Submitted by Councillor Brennan
To consider the following Motion submitted by Councillor Brennan:
“That this Council supports the Royal British Legion campaign to include Armed Forces status within the next census.
Currently there are no official figures that Health, Housing or Employment services can use to identify the number of people from the Armed Forces community living in our area.
Therefore there is no way of monitoring whether the Armed Forces Community actually have equality of access to the services that are provided.
This Council supports the RBL campaign and believes that having a benchmark figure from the Census for the number of Veterans, Regulars or Reservists in the population will help Housing, Health and Employment Services monitor equality of access, by comparing the percentage of Armed Forces Community actually accessing services against the percentage within the population.”
Minutes:
It was moved by Councillor Brennan, seconded by Councillor Byrom and unanimously
RESOLVED:
That this Council supports the Royal British Legion campaign to include Armed Forces status within the next census.
Currently there are no official figures that Health, Housing or Employment services can use to identify the number of people from the Armed Forces community living in our area.
Therefore there is no way of monitoring whether the Armed Forces Community actually have equality of access to the services that are provided.
This Council supports the RBL campaign and believes that having a benchmark figure from the Census for the number of Veterans, Regulars or Reservists in the population will help Housing, Health and Employment Services monitor equality of access, by comparing the percentage of Armed Forces Community actually accessing services against the percentage within the population.