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To assist the voluntary agencies, guidelines for fee
charging are now being formulated.
These guidelines will attempt
to strike a balance between the need not to discourage users of a
particular service on the one hand, and to the need, on the other
hand, to ensure that the aims of individual services and cash
benefits are met and that misuse of a particular service is not
unwittingly encouraged because it is free. In general, provided that
government financed social welfare services continue to cater for
those with limited means, it is not proposed that the level of
fees should aim to recover the full cost of providing a particular
However a modest fee has the desirable effect of making
service.
a service better appreciated. Moreover, revenue from fees would
make it possible for services to be improved and extended to all
those who require them sooner than might otherwise be possible.
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