This is not what will happen. The Department will continue to support the provision of tangible resources and supports to communities within the context of a single focussed programme and simplified and more efficient delivery mechanisms.
- Reply issued on behalf of Minister of State for Community Affairs, John Curran.
- Reply issued on behalf of Minister of State for Community Affairs, John Curran.
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Could the Minister explain how this will not happen? If you cut funding, you reduce resources and supports!!! Dressing it up in fancy language like "single focused programme" and "more efficient delivery" dosn't change that!
ReplyDeleteWho should we advise the vunerable groups and individuals we work with to contact in January for support? - I'll pass on the Minister's answer, but just to ask again in terms of tangible resources, who will I say will be helping them in Janauary in this simple and effective way and what is their name and phone number?
ReplyDeleteInevitably there's a reduction in service provision: firstly because less staff+less resources = less service provision and secondly because the change over period can be of any length: start up of new services, funds wasted on new directories and timetables, logos, letterheads...of course there's a reduction.
ReplyDeleteI will never understand how this dission was made, NO OTHER PROGRAMME OR AGENCY WORKS THE WAY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WORKS. Each Programme is as individual as the communities they are in. The Programme works on a botton up approuch supporting people to do for themselfs NOT giving them what someone thinks they want or what someone decide they need. That is the Key to the sucess of the programme. I was first intorduced to the Programme in my area 10 years ago. I was a decerted wife left with two children to bring up on my own in a difficult area, I tried other agencies and was left feeling inadequate as a person and just a number at the top of a page, In the others slot. THE COMMUNTIY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME supported me to do what I had to do for myself I was treated as a person and allowed to keep my dignity. THat is the Key - If the people deciding these things really wanted to know the value of the COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME they would have asked BUT like everything elce in this country its US who will suffer He can say what he wants but its the end of the Community Development Programme as I know it. SAVE THE BANKS AND DISTORY OUR COMMUNITIES,WERE ONLY PEOPLE
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly what will happen. We will be gone if this crazy plan comes to fruition. The Department do support the provision of tangible called the Community Development Projects. We are singly focussed on working with our communities developing the individual and group. Nothing could be simpler, we go to the community to see what they need and we work to provide it and and nothing could be more tangible, efficient or effective or needed.
ReplyDeleteMy fear is that the merger will take the cdp staff out of the communities and into a central office and away from the very communities they are being asked to support
ReplyDeleteI dont know about a central offices, I would say there will be more CDP staff out of work than moved to a central offices - maybe thats the plan?
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