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Mr. Needham
[holding answer 7 March 1988]: During the financial year ended 31 March 1987, the four health and social services boards provided the following bodies with the amounts of grant aid shown for programmes of activity wholly or largely in the child care field.
| Eastern Board |
|
£ |
| Barnardo's |
281,664 |
| Belfast Women's Aid |
59,777 |
| Craigmore |
85,000 |
| St. Joseph's |
250,000 |
| Crescent Day Nursery Group |
1,000 |
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£ |
| Contact Youth Counselling Service |
2,250 |
| Children's Community Holidays |
1,005 |
| Eliza Street Family Day Centre |
76,560 |
| Extern Organisation |
24,000 |
| Family Care Centres |
64,183 |
| Good Shepherd Convent |
25,320 |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption |
4,418 |
| Mother and Baby Clubs |
2,411 |
| Moyard Hostel |
2,086 |
| Nazareth Lodge |
96,000 |
| Save the Children Fund |
17,629 |
| Sydenham House Committee |
7,000 |
| St. Vincent De Paul Society |
7,462 |
| Ulster Quaker Service |
3,000 |
| Women's Groups |
3,402 |
|
1,014,167 |
| The Eastern board also provided organisations managing pre-school playgroups with grant aid amounting to |
872,482 |
| Eastern Board Total |
1,886,649 |
| Western Board |
|
£ |
| Save the Children Fund |
94,627 |
| Extern—Intermediate Treatment |
26,443 |
| De La Salle Boys' Home |
8,826 |
| Nazareth House Londonderry |
47,642 |
|
177,538 |
| The Western board also provided approximately 60 pre-school playgroups and mother and toddler groups with grant aid amounting to |
138,604 |
| Western Board Total |
316,142 |
| Northern Board |
|
£ |
| Coleraine Women's Aid |
14,169 |
| The Northern board also provided approximately 80 pre-school playgroups and mother and toddler groups with grant aid amounting to |
66,745 |
| Northern Board Total |
80,914 |
| Southern Board |
|
£ |
| Banbridge Youth Club |
1,487 |
| Brownlow Inter Agency Youth Support Group |
1,000 |
| Gingerbread Group, Craigavon |
407 |
| Gingerbread Group, Armagh |
106 |
| Gingerbread Group, Banbridge |
264 |
| NI Pre-school Playgroup Association |
375 |
| Orana Children's Home, Newry |
50,000 |
| Save the Children Fund |
2,750 |
|
56,389 |
| The Southern board also provided approximately 40 pre-school playgroups and mother and toddler groups with grant aid amounting to |
29,487 |
| Southern Board Total |
85,876 |
In addition, voluntary children's homes received £1,762,412 from the four health and social services boards as maintenance payments for individual children living in them. In the same period the Department of Health and Social Services provided grant aid to bodies in the child care field totalling £492,986
171WVoluntary organisations in the child care field may also be eligible for funding from other statutory sources, including the Department of Education, the Department
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of Economic Development, the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, district councils and education and library boards.