2025 SCiP Alliance Community Consultation
SCiP Alliance Community Consultation 2025
2025 SCiP Alliance Community Consultation
We are delighted to share the results of our third and largest community consultation, exploring the views and priorities of practitioners supporting children of serving and ex-UK Armed Forces personnel in the UK.
The consultation, which has been delivered by Tiller Research Ltd on behalf of the Alliance, builds on the previous stakeholder consultations undertaken in 2018 and 2022.
The report provides recommendations for future action that reflect the views of stakeholders on the value and contribution of the SCiP Alliance, suggesting strategic priorities that will be most effective in delivering positive impact for the children of serving and ex-UK Armed Forces personnel.
Contribution and Impact of the SCiP Alliance
A majority of stakeholders view the SCiP Alliance as having made a significant contribution to effecting change that will lead to enhanced outcomes for the children of serving and ex-UK Armed Forces personnel:
• The SCiP Alliance is viewed as having been effective in supporting practice and enabling collaboration. This contribution is viewed as having grown over time, with an increasing proportion of practitioners strongly agreeing that the SCiP Alliance has supported their practice;
• Practitioners most value the SCiP Alliance’s facilitation of networking and professional development opportunities, provision and dissemination of high-quality resources, and contributions to developing the evidence base;
• The SCiP Alliance is viewed as having made a significant contribution to increasing practitioner confidence, enhancing the availability and deployment of resources, building the evidence base, and informing policy related to the children of serving and ex-UK Armed Forces personnel;
• Views on the contribution and impact of the SCiP Alliance vary across the different sectors that together make up the SCiP Alliance community, indicating a range of contrasting opportunities, support needs, and priorities;
• There is scope for enhancing the availability and awareness of evidence about the impact of the work of the SCiP Alliance.
With thanks
The Community Consultation project has been generously funded by Greenwich Hospital as part of a wider project which also includes the State of the Sector 2025 report.
We are very grateful to all those in the SCiP Alliance community who have generously contributed their time to the consultation process via the online questionnaire or through a focus group.
