AIDS Support Grant Ending?
posted: 04/05/2010
AIDS Support Grant seems to be on its last legs - the Communities and Local Government "Smarter Government" plan shows that AIDS Support Grant (ASG) will no longer be ring fenced from April next year - 2011. Instead this money would be included in the central government area based grant to councils for providing Social Services. A copy of the Smarter Government paper is attached and ASG appears on page six.
After the general election we, NAT and other HIV organisations, will consider what we can do to keep ASG with its ring-fence.
As councils and HIV community organisations revealed in NAT's recent survey, there are serious concerns for HIV services, if the ring-fence is lifted, at a time when there are major public spending cuts on the horizon.
NAT carried out a detailed review of ASG in 2009
Smarter Government proposal to abolish ASG - see page 6
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