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Contributions to Voluntary Associations.
The following extract from the Scheme made by the Minister of
Health under Section 101 (6) of the Local Government Act, 1929, for
the payment of contributions by the London County Council and the
Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs to Voluntary Associations providing
Maternity and Child Welfare services in the County of London
indicates the financial aid afforded to local organisations and
institutions.
Subject to certain conditions in each of the five financial years
1937-38, 1938-39, 1939-40, 1940-41, and 1941-42, the London County
Council is required to pay, by way of annual contribution, specified
sums to certain voluntary associations and the Borough Council is
required similarly to pay to other voluntary associations annual fixed
grants.
It is a condition of the payment of a contribution to any voluntary
association under this scheme (i) that the Council are satisfied as to the
efficiency of the maternity and child welfare service provided by the
association in respect of which the contribution is payable, and that
such service is being used by a reasonable number of those persons for
whom it is provided; (ii) that no reduction or alteration of such
service is made without the consent of the Council; (iii) that such
service, and any premises in which it is carried on, are open to inspection
at all reasonable times by any officer of the Council duly authorised
by the Council, and by any officer of the Ministry of Health appointed
for that purpose by the Minister; (iv) that the association sends to
the Council in each year a copy of the annual report of the association
on the maternity and child welfare work of the previous year, together
with a statement of the accounts of the association for that year relating
to such work and a copy of the auditor's certificate thereon, and
furnishes the Council from time to time with such other information
relating to the maternity and child welfare services provided by the
association and the expenditure thereon as the Council may reasonably
require,