HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Deputation Meets Minister . Magnificient work was being done for handicapped children by a number of different committees, but the numbers were too great and the requirements too specialised'to be dealt with in this way, said the Minister for Social Welfare (Miss Howard) to a deputation which waited op her to discuss the problems of handicapped children.
Miss Howard suggested a coordinating committee should be formed such as the one for the care of the aged. “Then contact with, the Government could be made and the whole position viewed," said Miss Howard. The deputation was headed by the chairman of the Epilepsy Association (Mr A. Lexington Jones). Other members were Miss Edna Neville, Mrs L. Miles, and Messrs I. Buckingham and A. T. Nettleton.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29246, 2 July 1960, Page 4
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