Minister's plea gets cash for HSSD projects
A PASSIONATE plea by the Health and Social Services minister convinced the Policy Council to recommend two of his department's projects for funding – although neither met the standards required by the Moderating Group.
A PASSIONATE plea by the Health and Social Services minister convinced the Policy Council to recommend two of his department's projects for funding – although neither met the standards required by the Moderating Group.
Proposals to introduce a respite service for people caring for adults with learning disabilities and cash to allow foster children to live with family or friends have been put forward for funding as part of the States Strategic Plan process.
But the SSP report revealed that neither proposal met the standards required by the group that decides which projects to recommend.
'The Policy Council was advised that there was a distinct gap in the four high-scoring projects... and that the remainder of the proposals which were generally of poorer quality, did not contain all the information they could have or did not represent well-considered ideas for proposals,' said the report.
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