Westminster Login

If you already have a valid user account for Westminster, please click here to login;

https://www.westminster.mod.uk/app/f?p=westminster

If you require a user account, please contact your chain of command, ACF County, CCF Contingent or Brigade Cadet Branch. If you are not sure of who your chain of command is please email helpdesk@serfca.org with your personal and unit details and we will try to help.

About Westminster

1. WESTMINSTER is designed to provide a Management Information System (MIS) to cater for the needs of the Army Cadet Force (ACF), Combined Cadet Force (CCF) and the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC), hereafter referred to collectively as ‘The Agencies’.
2. It is based on ORACLE technologies to provide an application delivering a centralised database accessible through the internet for those with the correct levels of authorisation to do so. The System presents a ‘web site’ look and feel front end interface to the database thus allowing users to access the system from any internet capable PC.
3. Once successfully logged into the system, WESTMINSTER applies a number of security permissions to the user ensuring that only authorised people are permitted to see data relevant to their unit hierarchy. This ensures that for example, users in the Sea Cadets can not access data from units outside of, or up the chain of command hierarchy or indeed across Service boundaries (e.g. ACF Data). More information regarding The Agencies command structures can be found in Section 2 – Command Structures.
4. The WESTMINSTER application will provide the following objectives:
   1. Overcome the failings within the current ACF system OCTAVIA, in that the system contains 61 separate units with no means of interconnecting them and accessing the data they contain. WESTMINSTER will offer a fully connected system for all HQs who have a responsibility for cadets and improve the manipulation and interpretation of data held on the system.
   2. To efficiently and effectively store, handle and process personnel documents in a standardised way for a UK-wide organisation. The system will also be capable of processing pay returns for Adult Volunteers and Permanent Staff.
   3. To improve the passage of information within the Agencies, not least to enable those responsible and accountable for cadet activities to have sufficient information to make sound decisions. In addition, the emerging Armed Forces Youth Policy will require a process to monitor cadet activities more closely than is currently possible.
   4. To relieve the administrative load on the small number of permanent staff in HQs who have to control and manage the data.
   5. To give access to the data through the World Wide Web to a much wider community of Adult Instructors who are authorised to use it.
   6. It will allow up to date and accurate reports on any aspect of cadet activity nation wide to be given to Ministers, other politicians, the Chain of Command and the decision makers who allocate the budget.
   7. To safeguard and protect the details of children in the Agencies.
   8. To provide a helpdesk and technical support function.