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Superannuation Scheme for the Staffs of the Voluntary
Welfare Centres
All the welfare centres in the Lambeth Maternity and Child
Welfare scheme are controlled by voluntary committees, and the
staffs of the centres are in the employment of the committees. The
Council's superannuation scheme is limited to their own direct
employees, and the staffs of the welfare centres are not eligible to
participate. These staffs were faced with retirement on small sums
saved out of somewhat meagre salaries, which vary from £200 for
the junior posts to £250 for the few senior posts.
After consideration, the Council agreed in November, 1935, to
permit the voluntary committees to adopt the Federated Superannuation
Scheme for Nurses and Hospital Officers (Contributory),
and to make the appropriate contributions towards the cost. The
required arrangements were made individually by the welfare
centres, and except in those few in which the superannuation scheme
had already been adopted, initial contributions were made at the
beginning of the year. For those health visitors who were over age
and unable to benefit under the superannuation scheme, a sum
corresponding to the centre's contribution is to be paid annually
into a form of trust fund to accumulate and ultimately be given as
a gratuity on retirement.
Summary
The table on pages 42-43 indicates the scope of the facilities available
under the aegis of the Lambeth Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme and points to the success of the undertaking as a whole
by the great numbers attending the clinics and in other ways
making use of the diverse facilities provided.
The cost to the Local Authority of the Lambeth Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme since its inception in 1916, and the fall
in the infantile mortality year by year are shown in the following
table, together with the percentage of Lambeth children entering
the County Council Elementary Schools afflicted with some
physical defect of defects:—