Veteran advocacy 25 Jun 2020 When former head of the British Army General Lord Dannatt describes the deaths of veterans who take their own lives as an “epidemic of our time”, the needs of veterans can no longer be ignored. We must also never forget that the liberties that we enjoy today are due to the sacrifices of others. When veterans’ rights are infringed, we as lawyers must assist veterans in holding the state to account. The new Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA) was created in July 2019 and became operational last September. It is tasked with “helping to generate a ‘single view of the veteran’ by making better use of data to understand veterans’ needs and where gaps in provision exist”. It’s a long time since the last comprehensive data was collated by researchers. Led by Professor Nav Kapur, head of research at Manchester University’s Centre for Suicide Prevention, a team studied the deaths of veterans in the community after their discharge from the UK armed forces between 1996 ...
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