ABSTRACT
Needs change. The preoccupation of Settlements with material needs which was characteristic of earlier days has largely disappeared as material oonditions of life have improved, and the State has developed common provision for social well-being. Today Settlements are mainly concerned to promote happier social relationships and a fuller use of possibilities opened to the individual by a more equitable distribution of means, a better education, more free time for the development of personal interests. They are increasingly concerned to stimulate the growth of clubs or other neighbourhood groupings which are self-led and self-supporting rather than those of an earlier pattern which were often managed and financed by the Settlement; and this principle of increasing self-support is evident in almost all Settlement activities . . .
