HC Deb 25 November 1975 vol 901 cc132-3W

Hospital Accommodation:

Residential Homes:

Voluntary

The boards sponsor some residents in voluntary homes, but accurate information on individual costs is not readily available, except for Glencraig Curative School, Craigavad, where the present annual cost is £6,020 in respect of seven adults.

Five training schools in Northern Ireland, whose costs are met in full by the Northern Ireland Office, provide accommodation for the reception and care of children and young persons under 17 considered by courts to need residential training. Some are offenders, others may need care, protection or control which cannot otherwise be provided.

Payments made in the financial year ended 31st March 1975 were:

£
Rathgael 515,795
St. Patrick's 615,031
Lisnevin 403,737
Whiteabbey 166,316
St. Joseph's 118,163

It is not possible to distinguish between the cost of maintaining children and young persons or offenders and non-offenders but the weekly per capita cost for all five schools for the same period was approximately £70.

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