AQW 55417/11-16 Written question to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the independent advocacy services his Department funds.
Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 10 March 2016
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 10 March 2016
- Answer due by
- 25 March 2016
- Answered
- 23 March 201613 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
My Department provides revenue funding to Voice of Children and Young People in Care (VOYPIC), which provides a regional advocacy service for children and young people in care or who are care-experienced, to help them find out about their rights, enable them to make choices about the services they are entitled to receive, and to be fully involved in the decisions that affect their lives.
In 2015/16, the revenue grant to VOYPIC was £54,905.