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HOME HELP SERVICE
The Home Help Service is provided to meet the needs of
people who for various reasons such as home confinement, sickness
and old age, are either temporarily or permanently unable to carry
out housework or need assistance towards such tasks as shopping,
cleaning or washing.
The service is provided on the recommendation of the family
doctor and the amount of service is assessed on need by the home help
supervisor, and on availability of home helps. A charge is made
based on the cost of the service, but is reduced according to the
recipient's means where necessary.
The establishment of the equivalent of 60 full time home
helps has never been reached.
A recruiting campaign was held in January which
increased the number of full and part time home helps from 67
(38.8 full time helps) at 31st December 1965 to 102 (51.5 full time
helps) in March 1966, but the number gradually reduced throughout
the year and by 31st December 1966 it had fallen to 88 £45 full
time helps).
The Home Help Service offers a rewarding job for anyone
interested in helping those in need. It is not just dull repetitive
work but involves meeting people and giving social help and encouragement
as well as domestic assistance.

The total number of hours devoted to patients by the Home
Help Service was 80,470.