KITE and VAPC NE run an Armed Forces Community Hub workshop
A workshop to deepen the understanding of information exchange and infrastructure from a service perspective. 9 January 2018.
Prof Rob Wilson (r.) explaining the veteran landscape, VAPC/KITE Armed Forces Community Hub Workshop, KITE, Newcastle University, 09/01/2018. Photograph by Michael Potts. All rights reserved.
皇冠体育app Veterans Advisory and Pension Committee Northern England (VAPC NE) and Newcastle University鈥檚 Centre for (KITE) conducted a workshop with 2 objectives. 皇冠体育appse were to:
- focus on deepening the appreciation of sharing information within the armed forces community
- explore the need for developing information sharing infrastructure
to empower individual members of the regular and reserve armed forces, their families, and the veteran community
To help better understand the issues from the navy perspective, the VAPC NE lead, Mr. Michael Potts, and Profs and , , engaged with a Royal Navy Officer who had experience of both regular and reservists in the north-east England and experience working with veterans groups from a naval perspective.
This workshop was part of the on going process conducted by KITE and the VAPC NE to develop new tools and infrastructure to empower the armed forces community and provide the tools to local and national government, service providers and third sector partners. 皇冠体育appse tools will place the control back to the individual community member, veterans, their families, and serving members of the community, to provide the tools to improve support delivery, reduce costs, and to help those in most need.
皇冠体育app Hub project has been on going for 5 years. 皇冠体育appse rounds of workshops are an important way to develop the project to help maximise the toolset, infrastructure, and talent needed in a complex mixed economy, which veterans and the wider community are facing.
It is an important part to ensuring that veterans are very much in control and are not seen as a passive problem but as part of a solution.
皇冠体育app coming rounds of workshops are continuing and form an integral part of the KITE/VAPC NE Armed Forces Community Hub development process.