SOCIAL SERVICES CO-ORDINATION

Press, Volume C, Issue 29511, 12 May 1961, Page 15

SOCIAL SERVICES CO-ORDINATION

Support For Junior Council Scheme

Another co - ordinating committee for social services in Christchurch would be “an ideal way to dissipate useful energy and talent" says a letter from the Child Welfare Department in Christchurch to the Christchurch Junior Council. The letter was quoted at a meeting of the council on Wednesday evening. The council has asked for the opinions of a large number of organisations in Christchurch, and also in America and Britain, on having a co-ordinating committee for social sendees in Christchurch. The chairman of the junior council's social welfare committee (Mr J. W. Francis' said a large number of organisations had said they approved of the scheme.

The Child Welfare Department said the Christchurch Council of Social Services could do the co-ordination if it were necessary. Included in the organisations which gave their support to the committee, Mr Francis said. were the Christchurch Cerebral Palsy School. the Christchurch Epilepsy Association, the Social Security Department in Christchurch, the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing, the CanterburyWestland War Amputees’ Association and the Christchurch youth committee of the National Council of Churches.