The community and voluntary centre will be "devastated overnight" due to the loss of ESF funding a Northern Irish charity has warned, saying it is the result of the Brexit fallout and lack of a functioning government.
On Friday, March 31, the European Social Fund will cease to exist in Northern Ireland and will lead to tens of thousands of vulnerable people losing vital support services that they have relied on for years and countless more having a reduced level of support compared to generations before them.
Gráinne Close, the director of Mencap NI, has said that its employment support services for those with learning disabilities will lose 70% of its funding and that its support infrastructure, which it has developed over the course of 30 years, could disappear overnight.
