香港總督府
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REVIEW OF SOCIAL
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WELFARE
This is to let you know how the review is progressing now that Heppell is at work.
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First of all I enclose a record of a meeting at Government House on 30th April which sets out the programme of work. The only difference from the original concept of a 'report' by Heppell is that he will rather proceed immediately with the drafting of an Ex. Co. paper (by August), the relevant passage in my Leg. Co. speech by September, and a complete White, Green, or more probably White Paper with green edges by November.
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This does not represent a change, so much as an acknowledgment of the fact that if we only reached the stage of a 'report' by November, we could not introduce the first phaze in 1978/79.
Heppell welcomes
this as in the interests of producing decisive results earlier.
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Our preliminary thinking is that the White
Paper might be divided into 7 parts:
(i)
an introduction;
a survey of social security in general; a review of the present social security provisions in Hong Kong;
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(iv)
(v)
an examination of the choices before Hong Kong in the development of social security; proposals for development in respect of existing and new services for the various vulnerable groups;
J.A.B. Stewart Esq., OBE
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