Wllll|l|Ell? llllll. THE ‘T|lllllBlESHllllTE|lS'
broadly-based no-form-filling information service for the whole of the _Royal Navy and families. and preventive welfare work by professionally qualified people. are incorporated in a new .Na'al Personal and Family Service being introduced on April I. A
of the
an ionic
will staff SAFAI. F:-on Clio left they on COEI. ON Sawdon (who until In bond in H.M.5. Vcnfittoko), CMEM John Wellington (H.M.S. Cochran), and POMEM Mick Rooddy (H.M.$.
Du-ultol. Molding
about
a
point dapicy pond is a
Huflnc (:h:ffoffieor,NavolPIr|onal and Family Service). Ueul‘.-Cdr.
John
‘Play it —
or
else!’
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With the existing Family Welfare Organization maintaining its expertise in the handling of crisis work. the Admiralty Board's aim is that every possible guidance should be available on nonService as well as .Ԥer\ice tnatters and that small difficttlties should be tackled before they have a chance to
develop
into problems.
complex queries on house ownership or education, to the very ordinary thttt worrying) "My husband ‘.\:ts -‘outing ofl his ship. but he From
Iasn't arrived home l can't think what has happened to him. .' the ‘\'.'t\_\. is setting itself out to pros ide, if not the answer. advice on where to .
get the
answer.
A man going off to seat will have the reassumnee that his family should never. wherever they live. he in doubt or distress. having only to visit an ofiice. make a telephone call, or write a letter lor the organi/.'ition to swing into action. There will he no "name and number“ stuff and nothing will he t'1‘corded as
a
“p:tcl»..“ lnquiren
go with confidence and in eortlklenee.
can
-‘sccordittiz
the latest l)t.‘lL‘t1s.‘L' \VllilL' PHPCT. "Recruitment of qualified stall’ for the Nasal l‘:mtil}' Welfare Service. on the scale prev intIsl)' envisaged. has been deferred. because of tlte need for the utmost econom_v in the support field.“ However. despite the current financial difl'icu|ties. the new NPFS is a major step forward along the lines recommended by the Seehohm (‘ommittce in l9”!-1. to
SPEEDY HELP Information centres. to be called "Sailors" and l’amilies‘ Advice Bureau\" tS:‘\F.v\R for short). will he opened in
Portsittotttlt.
Plymouth.
Ros).-th_ l-”as|:tne. and
i
5
,
(‘ha-
tham. The bureaus will be read)‘ to receive phone calls or letters at any time. or to see personal callers during normal working hours. Officers, ratings and families especially the isolated _\'0ttt‘Ig naval wife whose lttts» hand is at sea and whose parents |i\ e a long. wit}; olT —
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can
be
sttre
of
s|')t'C{l_\' help in their problems.
friend|_v and dealing with
The
(’ommander in('hief \’aval Home (‘omtnand, who has been charged with the icsponsihlity for developing the service. will have as his "chief of stall" Miss Pam Baker. Head of the .\lav:tl §ocial Service, who is already well known in the R N as the adviser to the (Continued in Page -30) -
Money 'muddIe' had
“Dishones't." "sliahhy”
and "muddle" headlines filled the newspapers as ttproar rose
alleged plot
over an some Fleet
to
deprive
.'\ir .~\rm and Royal .-\ir Force personnel of gratuits benefits.
Hot words in the (‘ommons and elsewhere were by no means all hased on a full ttnderstanding ol
fliers in the facts, and indeed had the facts lseen less complicated. that full underst.'tmltny_ would have been a lot easier to reach The annotttteerncnts brought about by new pension legislation ltznc been around for quite a long time. but as Va» v News was told. "nobody seemed to know what they were all about" until the_v began to reach the career point when it hegan to matter. "Nico there were some people who became :tpprCllCt't\l\¢.‘ that their
spin
a gratuities More
were
or
less
negotiations
under threat.
parallel
were
"Head Oflicc"
to
Manor-¢Q—A:-5, our tuna-IIotdu..."ThanaIalI
urn-nvidfh!I.I.C..Oo0&h 0panHoun“po-
Potoonluk
E t
with this,
going on at gain the most
reasonahle terms possible (in s lew of the new pension lawst but the complexity of the situation did not help in pro'ducing swift and
simple
"undo! 0030‘ &l It Mn-nyuu-lube ovdwafvonthnk-t Au
attswcrs
\'o now there has been what is described as the great “climh down" Whether that is the
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