You are here : RAF Personnel Policy/Items of RAF Interest / Leave Policy / Compassionate Leave

Compassionate Leave

The purpose of Compassionate Leave is to allow Service personnel an authorised period of absence to enable them to attend to a personal crisis.

The amount of Compassionate Leave which may be awarded rests with the Commanding Officer (CO), but it should exceed 4 weeks only in exceptional circumstances and only following a re-examination of the justification for continued absence.  Repeated periods of Compassionate Leave should rarely be authorised.

Top of Page

Royal Air Force Famlies Federation logo

Telephone: 01780 781650
The RAF Families Federation
13-15 St Georges Road
Wittering
Peterborough
PE8 6DL

We're in your corner

Quick Vote

As a Service person living in SFA, have you ever had to take leave to wait at home for a contractor? If so, please answer 'yes' and click on the brown ‘Have your Say’ block and let us know how much leave you have lost this way in the last 12 months.