Nigel Williams, the province's children's commissioner, said he had been encouraged by a meeting last week where the Northern Ireland Office had promised to investigate the possibility of mainstreaming Children's Fund projects.
But Pauline Leeson, director of voluntary sector group Children in Northern Ireland, said four projects had been told their budgets would not be renewed, and staff at one had received their redundancy notices.
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