A delegation from the Soldiers Sailors Airmen and Families Association met the children's minister last week to call for the child protection parts of the legislation to be extended to forces children living in Germany, Cyprus, Brunei and Gibraltar.
Hodge promised to consider ways of opening up funding for Sure Start and other schemes to forces children. The association also called for children's directors and trusts to be set up.
Kate Burgess, the association's director of social work, said: "We wanted to know what consideration there had been about who would be the director of children's services for these children. We also told her about the challenges of the information, referral and tracking system in relation to services children who move about all the time."
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