Health and social services minister Angela Smith announced that the executive would spend an extra £220m on health, social services and public safety for 2004-05. Of that, she pledged a proportion to be put towards safeguarding and protecting vulnerable children and developing adoption services to cope with an expected increase in the number of children requiring adoption.
The department of health and social services could not give any more details of the funding, but said the allocation of the money would now be discussed by the department and its four boards, which are in turn responsible for 19 health and personal social services trusts.
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