Community Groups Scoop Lotto Bonanza
Welsh projects have received nearly £250,000 of Lottery cash. A total of £224,873 has been awarded to 64 community groups in this month’s round awards from the Awards for All Wales programme.
Read MoreWelsh projects have received nearly £250,000 of Lottery cash. A total of £224,873 has been awarded to 64 community groups in this month’s round awards from the Awards for All Wales programme.
Read MoreA squeeze on funding for care services for old people and increases in the cost of residential homes are putting an increasing strain on the elderly and their families.
Read MoreCapacitybuilders have announced details of a new grant to support the Development Trusts Association (DTA) Community Asset Programme.
Read MoreOld people’s care homes in York are set to benefit from nearly £250,000 in improvements. City of York Council has been awarded £220,000 in Government funding for 2007/08, to spend on improvements that will enhance the physical environment of registered care homes for older people.
Read MoreThe findings of a UK-wide four year research project to help health care employers get the most out of work-based practice learning have been unveiled by the University of Ulster.
Read MoreCivic leaders in Glasgow were last night accused of running out of ideas by a report they helped to fund. Demos, a London-based think-tank, said the city’s council and other authorities had left whole communities and neighbourhoods behind as they chased a “formulaic” vision of regeneration.
Read MoreThe number of background reports sought for young offenders in Scotland’s biggest city has doubled in just two years. The rising workload in Glasgow comes as one of the clearest signs yet of just how many children are causing serious concern to authorities.
One-in-four Scots children is living in poverty, according to a new report released today by a leading children’s charity. Barnardo’s Scotland said about 250,000 youngsters are currently living below the breadline.
Read MoreTwo more Hampshire residential care homes face closure – because they cost too much to repair, say county bosses. The cash-strapped adult social services department of Hampshire County Council is proposing to shut the homes in Basingstoke and Lymington in a bid to save money.
Read MoreThe government will fail to halve child poverty in Britain by 2010 unless it spends another £3.8bn, a children’s charity has warned. Barnardo’s said ministers were a long way from honouring the pledge Tony Blair made eight years ago. The charity’s research shows one million children who should have been lifted out of deprivation by the end of the decade will still be in poverty.
{mosimage}Ministers say they have made progress in reaching the target. Barnardo’s warns that while the number of children living in poor families fell slowly but steadily in the late 1990s, progress has now stalled. To meet the 2010 target, the charity says the government needs to invest a lump sum in addition to the £1bn already earmarked for tax credits in the 2007 budget.
The charity said the required figure was less than half the cost of staging the Olympics and represented less than half the £9bn paid in City bonuses last year. But the report did congratulate Mr Blair for his original “historic and ambitious” target of halving child poverty from 3.4 million to 1.7 million by the end of the decade.
Some 600,000 children have so far been lifted out of deprivation since the pledge was made, the charity says. Martin Narey, Barnardo’s chief executive and chairman of End Child Poverty, said the future prime minister, Gordon Brown, still had a chance to continue the battle against child poverty started by Mr Blair.
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