05/03/2003
£17m fund for at risk children announced
The NIO has today announced details of grants topping £17 million for projects aimed at helping children in need and young people at risk.
The money will be made available through the Children’s Fund to support over 100 individual projects designed to improve life for some of our most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people.
Some of the projects are large and focus on helping children and young people across a wide area, while other smaller projects have a much more local dimension. They focus on a range of interventions from the earliest years of a child’s life to the needs of teenagers.
Making the announcement at Child Care NI in Belfast, NIO Finance Minister Ian Pearson said: "Children and young people face many challenges today that previous generations would have found unimaginable. So too do their parents and carers. We all want to do what’s best for our children. But often we, and they, need help and support. Today’s announcement of £17 million will ensure that that support is there for those in the field with a real capability of benefiting children in need and young people at risk.
"The successful projects now have the best possible opportunity to make the impact they promise. The funding, over a three-year period, will enable them to have a real and meaningful effect on some of the most vulnerable people in our society."
There had been 324 individual applications for funding, together seeking in excess of £57 million, and so many projects may not be successful.
The work to prioritise bids was done at local level, involving the four local Children and Young People’s Committees, which draw their membership from across the statutory and voluntary sectors.
The announcement comes on top of previous announcements of funding from the Children’s Fund of £20.6 million fund led by the statutory sector.
(GMcG)
The money will be made available through the Children’s Fund to support over 100 individual projects designed to improve life for some of our most disadvantaged and vulnerable young people.
Some of the projects are large and focus on helping children and young people across a wide area, while other smaller projects have a much more local dimension. They focus on a range of interventions from the earliest years of a child’s life to the needs of teenagers.
Making the announcement at Child Care NI in Belfast, NIO Finance Minister Ian Pearson said: "Children and young people face many challenges today that previous generations would have found unimaginable. So too do their parents and carers. We all want to do what’s best for our children. But often we, and they, need help and support. Today’s announcement of £17 million will ensure that that support is there for those in the field with a real capability of benefiting children in need and young people at risk.
"The successful projects now have the best possible opportunity to make the impact they promise. The funding, over a three-year period, will enable them to have a real and meaningful effect on some of the most vulnerable people in our society."
There had been 324 individual applications for funding, together seeking in excess of £57 million, and so many projects may not be successful.
The work to prioritise bids was done at local level, involving the four local Children and Young People’s Committees, which draw their membership from across the statutory and voluntary sectors.
The announcement comes on top of previous announcements of funding from the Children’s Fund of £20.6 million fund led by the statutory sector.
(GMcG)
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