HC Deb 30 March 1981 vol 2 cc30-1W
Mr. Squire

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the projects in the United Kingdom which have benefited or are benefiting from support under the European Community's poverty programme.

Sir George Young

The projects in the United Kingdom which received support under the European Community's programme to combat poverty are the following:

  • six family day care schemes in London:
    • Croydon Gingerbread Play Centre
    • Defoe Day Care Centre
    • London Voluntary Services Council Family Groups Project
    • Aide a Toute Detresse Fourth World Evening Project
    • Cambridge House New Careers Project
    • Camden Family Service Drop-in Centre
  • a family day care scheme in Liverpool run by the Liverpool Personal Service Society
  • the South Wales Anti-Poverty Action Centre, run by a consortium of seven local groups and voluntary bodies
  • an Area Resource Centre in Govan, sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkien Foundation
  • a London Voluntary Services Council Resource Centre the Graigmillar Festival Society in Edinburgh
  • the Lothian social and Community Development Programme organised by the Lothian Regional Council
  • a Survey of Areas of Special Need and the work of Voluntary Organisations in Northern Ireland by the Department of Social Administration, University of Ulster
  • the Belfast Welfare Rights Action Research Project organised by the Faculty of Social and Health Services Ulster Polytechnic
  • a Tribunal Representation Unit in Wolverhampton run by the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux

In addition, some international studies, done in whole or in part by United Kingdom researchers, have been financed under the programme.