The cuts were made to low intensity services including day care, meals and homecare - services associated with keeping people well and out of A&E.
More than a million children in poverty attend Head Start, which provides them with medical and dental care, meals and other essential services in a day care setting.
And for their offspring, having parents nearby, and in living arrangements that offer built-in health care, meals, housekeeping and social activities, offers a compelling alternative to the anxiety of caring for parents who are hundreds of miles away.
Democrats said that their Republican counterparts would move to eliminate the Community Services Block Grant to states, jeopardizing child care, Meals on Wheels services, child protective services and transportation assistance for millions of children and older people.
In seeking to broaden the menu of Head Start beyond the provision of care, meals, play and limited learning, President Bush is relying on researchers who argue that waiting too long to expose poor children to the basic elements of reading leaves them hopelessly behind peers blessed with far more academic resources, particularly at home.
A16 EDUCATION Differing Views on Head Start A cadre of developmental psychologists and educators, including members of the Head Start establishment, disagree with President Bush's support for broadening the scope of Head Start beyond the provision of care, meals, play and limited learning.
The Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday was set to pass legislation requiring a Social Security number to claim the refundable child tax credit and eliminating the Social Services Block Grant, which helps state programs like child care, Meals on Wheels for older people, and child protective services.
The rest get help from other services, such as day care, meals on wheels, or via home adaptations and equipments.
Besides offering no evidence for why $15 an hour would be bad for small businesses, Schultz also argued that any minimum wage increase in Seattle should be calculated by the "total compensation" an employee receives (such as health care, meals, and bus passes) and not merely the hourly wage.
The range of community services included: personal care, meals on wheels, transport costs and domestic services.
Services vary with the needs of the client and include nursing and allied health care, personal care, meals, household assistance, transport, day centres and respite care [ 1, 2].
