British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 685

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(5) Case investigations for school feeding committees and school fees committees.

(6) Co-operation with local committees for play-grounds , clubs, day nurseries and summer camps.

(7) Assistance to probation officers in the treatment of delinquency.

132. The total social welfare budget of the Va'ad Leumi and local councils - excluding Tel Aviv - is at present estimated at £P.145,000. Of this sum Government contributes 25%, central Jewish funds 35% and local sources - voluntary taxes, donations. parents' contributions for child placing, etc. - 40%.

133. The Tel Aviv Municipality has its own social welfare department with six branch offices and a central child welfare bureau. The current budget is approximately £P.250,000, divided as follows i-s-

Family relief

20%

Child welfare

Feeding of school children

18%

Medical relief

12%

Constructive aid

6%

Institutional care for adults

2%

Administration

A%

The budget is based on municipal taxes and a Government grant representing 13% of the total.

134. Whereas in Tel Aviv social welfare activities tend to become more and more the exclusive responsibility of the municipality, voluntary societies play an increasingly important part in other Jewish areas. The legal right to impose taxes in non-municipal areas is limited, so that the major part of the Jewish community has to depend on self-imposed taxation and voluntary contributions. The organizations and agencies which contribute by far the greatest portion to Jewish social welfare funds are

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