Result! Cash for eating disorders services in Wales
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 11:37am
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I’m really happy today. Edwina Hart has announced as part of her budget deal that she will be investing £1.5 million in to eating disorders services in Wales. I am so pleased that the work of the campaigners and the experts on the cross party group on eating disorders has been successful, and I hope now that we can organise a meeting with Edwina Hart to discuss how this money will be allocated. There has been severe inaction on eating disorders services in Wales for so many years, despite the ongoing hard work of volunteers and clinicians and so on in lobbying the government. I am over the moon, therefore that this issue is finally being taken seriously, and that the estimated 56,000 sufferers in Wales can now begin to have faith in the fact that something is happening.
This is doubly exciting given that B-eat Cymru ( the charity that supports the carers and those who suffer from eating disorders) will be launched later this month in Monmouth. The work that the statutory sector and the voluntary sector carry out in this area together will ultimately strengthen services across the board.
So we will be celebrating at tonight’s cross party group on eating disorders at 6pm here at the National Assembly if you wish to join us!
