Educate the Child, Support the Family, Defend the Nation

Our Mission

• To provide expert advice and guidance for Service and Entitled personnel regarding education and care in the United Kingdom and overseas.

• To provide professional advice, intervention and challenge to support education and care in DCS Schools and Settings, and other commissioned locations.

• To provide professional oversight of MOD contracts, licences and policies related to the delivery of education, care and safeguarding of our children in DCS Schools and Settings and other commissioned locations.

Our Vision

Demonstrating best practice for the education and care of children of military personnel. 

Our Values

The values of DCS directly align with the core civil service values which we all strive to meet. 

• Integrity: putting the obligations of public service above personal interests.

• Honesty: being truthful and open.

• Impartiality: acting solely according to the merits of the case and serving equally well governments of different political persuasions.

• Objectivity: basing advice and decisions on rigorous analysis of the evidence.