Victim Services ‘Need Fresh Plan’
Services to help victims of the Troubles are uncoordinated and lack any long-term funding strategy, a report has suggested. Victims Commissioner Bertha McDougall warned that available money would be dramatically reduced by 2007. “The over-riding impression is that services for victims are policy-driven rather than focused on specific and changing needs,” she said. She said more than 120,000 people in NI were directly affected by the Troubles. Mrs McDougall is publishing her interim report on Thursday, six months after she was appointed by the government.
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