Nursery World - Children's service funds should heed rural families

Additional resources needed to reach vulnerable families in rural areas should be accounted for in Government funding, according to a Welsh children's charity.

The Children in Wales report, Families not areas suffer ruraldisadvantage: Support for rural families in Wales, looks at the issuesfaced by disadvantaged families. It argues that increased costs inproviding rural services need to be met by more flexible and equitableGovernment funding. Factors such as time management should be included,and longer-term funding should be given to back community networks.

Poverty and social exclusion or isolation in rural Wales wereundeniable, according to the report. There were also difficultiesjustifying provision of rural services with larger deprived areaswinning grants.

Recommendations included ensuring that good public transport was'designed in' to new developments, reaching out to new migrants throughfamily centres, and taking account of pockets of deprivation locatedwithin more affluent areas.

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