Resources: Funding focus - Section 64

What will it fund? Basically, the grants are for doing the same things that the NHS or local authority social services do. Some grants contribute to core costs of organisations but the main programme is for national projects. This covers work of potential national significance in one of the department's priority areas for 2007-08. Several of these focus on older people but there are a couple of broad categories that include young people - including the "child health and maternity" heading that will look to support innovative national projects for children and young people suffering "harm and ill health" or with "complex health needs", and projects that promote mental and psychological wellbeing and access to age-appropriate services. Other categories include "health improvement", which covers the development of preventive programmes in areas such as alcohol, smoking, drugs, sexual health, obesity and "helping children and young people lead healthy lives".