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HOME HELP SERVICE
The arrangements for the administration of this Service
remained the same as in the previous year: 1 Senior and 4 Home
Help Organisers assess the need, arrange for the provision of
help and supervise the staff employed in the Home Help, Night
Attendant and Good Neighbour Services.
Statistics relating to the Home Help Service are given in
Table 13 with the figures for 1967 shown in parenthesis. A larger
number of patients were provided with help than in the previous
year, but the total number of hours for which help was provided
was slightly lower owing to difficulties in the recruitment of
Home Helps in some areas of the Borough. This necessitated
the number of hours attendance provided each week being reduced
for some patients in areas where this difficulty arose. 362 Home
Helps were employed /during the year, all of whom were part-time
employees.
The in-service training programme for groups of home
helps, held at the College of Technology, continued through
the year.