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Section 6. —Home Aid Service {a) Administrative Developments (1) The activities of the Home Aid Service were expanded during this financial year. The assistance rendered in homes has proved to be most acceptable, particularly in those cases where the housewife is incapacitated due to maternity or sickness or where t;here are a number of young children and there is sickness in the home. Most householders who have had occasion to employ a Home Aid have reported favourably on the •quality of the work done. The Aids employed in the Service have again proved themselves to be most willing and adaptable workers who are capable of accepting responsibility for all household duties. The conditions of employment are better, and the status aimed at for the Service is higher than can be normally associated with private domestic work, but the general shortage of female labour nevertheless provides the Department with many difficulties in recruiting the number of Aids necessary to meet the insistent demand for the Service. Notwithstanding the recruitment of a considerable number of new Aids from the Department's immigration scheme, it has remained necessary to restrict the availability of Aids mainly to cases of an emergency nature. (2) The establishment of Home Aid hostels in two main centres has to a certain •extent overcome one of the main difficulties experienced in recruiting sufficient staff for the Service. The hostels are used extensively as training centres for girls joining the Service who require training to qualify as certificate-holders. The courses include instruction in all phases of household duties, plain cooking, care and management of children, marketing, budgeting, and selecting of household goods. (3) Recent increases in the award rates payable to female workers in industry generally have been applied to the Home Aid Service, and these increases have in turn been reflected in the charge for the services of a Home Aid, which is now fixed at 2s. 3d. an hour. There is adequate provision for a reduction in this charge if payment in full would involve hardship, and reductions have been made in a number of deserving cases. (b) Activities for the Tivelve Months (1) The following table summarizes the activities of the Service for the twelve months ended 31st March, 1948 :—■
Activities of the Home Aid Service for the Year ended 31st March, 1948
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Xumber Details of Cases serviced during Period. Month. of Aids employed. Maternity. Sickness. Other. Total. April, 1947 54 122 166 11 299 May, 1947 .. 50 124 169 20 313 June, 1947 .. 51 116 149 15 280 July, 1947 .. 50 88 144 10 242 August, 1947 51 56 91 14 161 September, 1947 53 77 114 1 192 October, 1947 55 88 108 196 November, 1947 55 97 94 2 193 December, 1947 57 66 106 1 173 -January, 1948 53 73 92 11 176 February, 1948 68 79 92 171 March, 1948 60 107 143 3 253 Totals 1,093 1,468 88 2,649
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