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STAFFING
Development of the services will, if they are to be run efficiently, require the establishment
of the staff to be increased to meet the growing needs.
The ageing of our population, the increasing tendency to retain in or return to the community
the sick and handicapped, and the widening range of services all call for increases of staff. In our
plan we have taken account of shortages in skilled manpower by including auxiliaries wherever
possible - for instance in the home nursing and health visiting services - who will work alongside
and under the guidance of professionally trained colleagues. The home help service which supports
so many of the frail elderly in their own homes is to be doubled within the next ten years - though
even then it will only provide five home helps for every 1,000 people of pensionable age. It will,
of course, be supplemented by the "Good Neighbour" Service which is being expanded to cover
the whole Borough.
CAPITAL WORKS
Including projects in hand, the programme for the first five years consists of:-
Six day nurseries, nine health centres or family health clinics, two hostels for
the mentally ill, a day rehabilitation centre, a day centre, an industrial centre, a junior
training centre and four hostels for the mentally subnormal.
For the second five years of the plan, the following proposals are included but will be
revised at each subsequent annual review:-
Four day nurseries, three health centres or family health clinics, one hostel for
the mentally ill and three hostels for the mentally subnormal.
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