The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan T.D., today (10/12/2013) announced the allocation for the Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) in 2014 of €47.7 Million; making the announcement Minister Hogan said “this will enable 44,000 people to engage through one-to-one interventions in 2014 to assist them in returning to employment, it will also sustain 650 jobs in Local Development Companies, providing services to communities”.
The LCDP tackles poverty and social exclusion in disadvantaged communities and is a key tool of Government in providing supports for the ‘harder to reach’ in the most disadvantaged areas in society. The scheme assists people in training and re-skilling in order to re-enter the workforce. It is a locally accessible, frontline intervention, supporting disadvantaged communities.
“We operate in an environment of shrinking resources; nevertheless we must continue to do more with less. I want to see Local Development Company’s maintain key services and supports through prioritising resources at the front-line. There is an onus on all groups to strive to improve service delivery and to do so at a significantly reduced cost to the public purse”, said the minister.
The current LCDP comes to an end at the end of 2013. A successor programme to the LCDP is currently being designed based on; inter alia, the main findings of the Mid-Term Review of the Programme.
To facilitate the redesign of the programme and to allow for the establishment of the Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) in line with enhancing the role of local government in local and community development, transitional arrangements will apply for the first six months of 2014, which will entail the current LCDP framework being extended to 30th June 2014, on the same basis as the present arrangement. From 1 July 2014 the LCDCs will have oversight and management of the LCDP, based on the current programme framework. A new programme will roll out, through the LCDCs, from January 2015.
“I am pleased to have been able to provide a significant level of funding that will support local communities in these difficult economic times for the country” said Minister Hogan.
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Notes for editors
The LCDP is 100% exchequer funded.
44,000 persons are set for engagement through one-to-one LCDP interventions in 2013; at the end of Q3 almost 33,000 or 75% of target was reached. Similarly at the end of Q3:
Over 8,000 individuals are participating in education;
Almost 11,000 individuals are participating in labour market training;
Over 4,000 individuals have progressed into employment/self-employment.
Other services delivered through the LCDP included outreach programmes and advice/guidance actions where persons are signposted to other services and activities.
The LCDP is underpinned by four high level goals:
To promote awareness, knowledge and uptake of a wide range of statutory, voluntary and community services;
To increase access to formal and informal educational, recreational and cultural development activities and resources;
To increase peoples’ work readiness and employment prospects; and
To promote engagement with policy, practice and decision making processes on matters affecting local communities.
The objectives of the LCDP include the following:
Develop and sustain a range of services to support, prepare and assist people to enter the Labour Market;
Develop and sustain strategies with local enterprises to increase local employment prospects;
Develop and sustain strategies to increase local self-employment prospects.
Local Development Company 2014 Allocation
Avondhu/Blackwater Partnership Limited €419,374
Ballyfermot/Chapelizod Partnership Company Limited €619,238
Ballyhoura Development Limited €444,994
Ballymun/Whitehall Area Partnership €721,201
Blanchardstown Area Partnership Limited €884,866
Bluebell, Inchicore, Islandbridge, Kilmainham & Rialto Partnership Company Limited €853,588
Bray Area Partnership Limited €818,496
Breffni Integrated Limited €741,784
Carlow County Development Partnership Limited €536,428
Cill Dara Ar Aghaidh Teoranta €1,020,227
Clare Local Development Company Limited €855,341
Comhar Chathair Chorcai Teoranta €1,211,826
Comhar na nOilean Teoranta €527,272
County Kilkenny Leader Partnership Company Limited €607,813
County Sligo Leader Partnership Company Limited €673,005
County Wicklow Community Partnership Limited €584,686
Donegal Local Development Company Limited €966,071
Fingal Leader Partnership Company Limited €363,686
Forum Connemara Limited €227,396
Galway City Partnership Limited €746,503
Galway Rural Development Company Limited €896,437
Inishowen Development Partnership €628,610
IRD Duhallow Limited €387,147
Laois Community and Enterprise Development Company Limited €564,064
Leitrim Integrated Development Company Limited €603,046
Longford Community Resources Limited €587,999
Louth LEADER Partnership €1,355,623
Mayo North East Leader Partnership Company Teoranta €562,019
Meath Community Rural and Social Development Partnership Limited €346,264
Monaghan Integrated Development Limited €651,864
North & East Kerry Leader Partnership Teoranta €1,132,294
North Tipperary Leader Partnership €518,561
Northside Partnership Limited €1,119,336
Offaly Integrated Local Development Company Limited €738,314
People Action Against Unemployment Limited (PAUL) €1,424,307
Rathmines Pembroke Community Partnership Limited €676,921
Roscommon Integrated Development Company Limited €629,842
South and East Cork Area Development Partnership Limited €463,152
South Dublin County Local Development Company €2,044,785
South Kerry Development Partnership Limited €570,945
South Tipperary Development Company Limited €603,889
South West Mayo Development Company Limited €418,276
Southside Partnership DLR Limited €1,074,127
Tolka Area Partnership Limited €1,037,545
Waterford Area Partnership Limited €766,098
Waterford Leader Partnership Limited €365,171
West Cork Development Partnership Limited €453,322
West Limerick Resources Limited €601,766
Westmeath Community Developments Limited €806,542
Wexford Local Development €1,791,314