AML Skills
We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.
The Armed Forces Covenant
An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families
The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.
Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.
This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.
Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant
1.1 We AML Skills will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment
2.1 AML Skills recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- Armed Forces Friendly
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- UK Reservists
- Armed Forces Day
- Reserve Forces Day
We also pledge the following:
Promoting the Armed Forces: We ensure our staff, clients and the public are aware of the Armed Forces covenant to better iden-tify and serve members of the Armed Forces Community. We actively promote that we are a forces friendly organisation on all literature and social media. We actively publish information at locations we carry out work nationally. Employment support to members of the Armed Forces Community: We actively seek Veterans and current service personnel when recruiting new starters within our organisation. We support Reservists by offering them additional time to carry out duties relating to the their Armed Forces commitments, with the guarantee their position will be secure upon their return. We offer our colleagues and their immediate family an annual railcard which saves one third off every journey taken across the rail network in the UK. We offer a buddy system to new colleagues who are part of the Armed Forces community. Communications, engagement and outreach: We support and promote Armed Forces events, such as armed forces day/week, Reserves Day and poppy appeal, and remembrance activities. Working with our local community church, we will facilitate and promote a support network for veterans and other members of the armed forces community, e.g. local veterans breakfast. Commercial: We will endeavour to ensure the whole Armed Forces community has further access to our ser-vices, and not put at any disadvantage of this by their service, e.g a result of their high mobility. This is something we want to be natural in our area of residency and work. Health As a training provider we will offer our Armed Forces community, both Veteran and serving the op-portunity to attend our Mental Health courses when appropriate. At AML, we empower veterans by reigniting their sense of purpose, we invite colleagues and fami-lies on walks and bike rides. Education: We will engage with the Career Transition Partnership to advertise and promote education, assisting service leavers with learning credits when possible. We offer family friendly courses to Service spouses, encouraging social gathering. We offer additional training to Veterans and Service personnel, and their spouses to further en-hance their education e.g. some of the more advanced courses we offer could be used as stepping stone towards a career with the Ambulance Service.
2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.