Soldiers’ families offered free skills training

While their husbands, wives, bothers and sisters go toe-to-toe with the Taliban in Afghanistan, families of serving troops can learn new skills for free.

Oxfordshire County Council, the Royal Logistic Corps and Abingdon and Witney College have come together to offer them training, which could help them get back into work, according to the Oxford Mail.

After captain Geoff Nuzum, regimental careers management officer at Dalton Barracks applied to the council for £20,000 to fund courses, more than 60 people signed up.

Captain Nuzum told the newspaper that there is a lot of support for troops among the general public and this move is to help the families who can sometimes be forgotten.

"This is one of a number of services we offer to the families of soldiers, to help them integrate with, and feel part of, the local community," he added.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne and shadow defence secretary Liam Fox recently said that if the Tories are voted in at the next election, they will give the kids of fallen soldiers scholarships to university.

Posted by Samantha Thompson