After-school Care and Holiday Playschemes

HC Deb 10 July 1979 vol 970 cc113-4W

Miss Richardson

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will consider guaranteed funding for voluntary/local authority projects for after-school care and school holiday play-schemes.

Dr. Boyson

The demand for such provision inevitably has to compete with other claims on public funds, but quite a number of voluntary and local authority projects of this nature, often involving the use of school buildings, are already grant-aided by central government under the urban programme.