AQW 55417/11-16

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 10/03/2016
Answered On Date: 23/03/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to detail the independent advocacy services his Department funds.

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.