SDLP Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin has said that figures provided by the Training for Women Network demonstrate that the women’s sector in Derry has been left behind.
Organisations have been severely impacted by the loss of the European Social Fund and the failure of the UK Government’s replacement fund to meet demand.
Comparing women-specific initiatives by Council area, the figures reveal that Derry City & Strabane Council area received £0 of funding, compared to Belfast receiving £1.3million and other areas receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds from the new UK Shared Prosperity Fund’s economic inactivity competition.
