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<p>Defence recognises the integral role of its Service personnel in meeting Defence
outputs. It also acknowledges the importance of a robust childcare support system
in enabling the mobility, recruitment and retention of a capable workforce of motivated
personnel. A good childcare support system also benefits the social, emotional and
educational development of Service children and young people.</p><p>The Wraparound
Childcare (WAC) scheme is designed to help Service personnel with dependent primary
school aged children by funding their WAC in order to mitigate the potential disruption
that Service life can sometimes cause. The scheme will assist those who are most likely
to be impacted by issues of mobility and deployment and is open to all UK based Armed
Forces families where the Service person has either an assignment order to a UK based
unit or is serving overseas unaccompanied (involuntarily) with the family resident
in the UK.</p><p>Within the first year of a full UK rollout of the WAC scheme it is
estimated that up to twenty thousand children could benefit from the scheme.</p>
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