Local Assembly Member Paul Davies has endorsed the Royal British Legion’s new best practice guide on supporting service children in schools in Wales. The guide aims to improve the provision of education to Service children by highlighting the issues of most concern to

Service pupils and their families and providing examples of best practice across the country. One of the schools promoted in the guide is Prendergast primary school, which runs a MKC Heroes club after school for Service children in conjunction with the school’s MoD keyworker.

Mr Davies said, “I’m pleased to endorse the Royal British Legion’s new Service children guide and I’m delighted that Prendergast school has been cited as an example of best practice. It’s absolutely crucial that children of serving Armed Forces personnel have access to the help and services they may need, due to the unique challenges that they may face.”

He added, “Sadly, the guide also notes that unlike in England and Northern Ireland, there is currently no specific funding provided to support Service children in Wales as a group and this is something that I will be raising with Welsh Government Ministers, whenever the opportunity presents itself.”