Community services in Northern Ireland: the last ten years

For further reading on the Community Relations Commission, see: H. Griffiths , Community Development in Northern Ireland: a Case Study in Agency Conflict, Coleraine, New University of Ulster, 1975

; H. Griffiths , 'Community Development: Some More Lessons from the Recent Past in Northern Ireland', Community Development Journal, 10(1), 1975: 2-13

; M. Hayes , Community Relations and the Role of the Community Relations Commission in Northern Ireland, London, Runnymede Trust, 1972

; B. Rolston , 'Community Politics' in L. O'Dowd , B. Rolston and M. Tomlinson , Northern Ireland: Between Civil Rights and Civil War, London, CSE Books , 1980.

Hayes, M. speech to conference of voluntary organisations, Belfast , 22.1.71.

See Darby, J. and Morris, G. Intimidation in Housing, Belfast, Community Relations Commission, 1974. The authors estimate that as many as 60,000 people moved home between 1969 and 1973, the largest population movement in western Europe since the end of the Second World War.

Griffiths, H. minutes of community development team meeting, 28.9.71.

Letter of McIvor, B. Minister of Community Relations, to Hayes, M. 14.1.72.

See: Tomlinson, M. 'Relegating Local Government', in L. O'Dowd et al., op. cit ,

Cooper, I. Assembly Reports, 3.4.74.

Fitt, G. Northern Ireland Hansard, 18.11.70.

Duffy, F. et al, Community Action and Community Perceptions of Social Services in Northern Ireland, Coleraine, New University of Ulster, 1975.

Frazer, H. 'Community Work into the Eighties', in Frazer, H. et al., Community Work in a Divided Society, Belfast, Farset Community Press, 1981.

Henry, B. in Conference Report, 'Community Work Does Not Need the State-Does the State Need Community Work?', Belfast, Ulster Polytechnic, 25.6.81.

Donaghy, G. An Examination of the Pattern of Community Development in Northern Ireland Since District Council Control, Newry, Newry and District Confederation of Community Groups, 1981: 28.

Figure provided by Director of Community Services Department, Belfast.

See: Sunday News, 2.9.75.

See: Sunday News, 12.9.76.

Cited in Belfast Telegraph, 5.3.84.

One example of a facility which has survived for a number of years without council help, and indeed in the face of council opposition, is the Independent Advice Centre in Craigavon. Funding has come from a number of sources, including the local Area Board.

Note, in line with what is explained in detail on page 89, that the total amounts here represent 75 per cent of the ceiling set by the Department of Education. The real amount spent by a council can thus be much higher than this.