§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans he has to ensure that the information contained in the AIDS leaflet, recently distributed to all households, is communicated to the functionally illiterate in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. NewtonWe are at the start of a long campaign to educate the public about AIDS, the first stage of which has been whole population coverage by advertising in the media and by the AIDS leaflet. We are considering how best to build on this in order to reach specific groups within the community, including those with reading difficulties.
§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether his plans to ensure that the AIDS leaflet reaches students in universities and colleges will include arrangements to ensure that YTS trainees training on employers' premises and with private training agencies are similarly informed.
§ Mr. NewtonThe special arrangements made for supplies of the AIDS leaflet to be available in colleges and universities were to enable students living away from home to have their own copies.
I understand that the majority of trainees under the YTS scheme and at private training agencies live at home. They should therefore have had the opportunity of reading the leaflet when it was distributed to each household.
Posters are currently being displayed in main post offices where copies of the leaflet are available.