Services to the handciapped
The proposals for services to the
handicapped were published in a green paper on
13th October last and the process of debate and
consultation that followed it has now been completed
and a definitive White Paper will be published
this month setting out a 5-year development
programme.
Since this work is of a highly specialised
nature, will be carried out not by one but several
departments, and has a large measure of voluntary
agency participation, special measures will be taken
to co-ordinate and drive it forward, by means
of a committee chaired by the Hon. Dr. Harry Fang. The main lines of the proposals are already known
to you, but as, a broad indication of the scale,
enveongel
of action provided for in the White Paper over the
next 5 years: the staff engaged in the many
disciplines of rehabilitation and care of the
handicapped will be more than doubled, capital
works of the order of $86 M will be undertaken, and
recurrent expenditure should rise from $122M in 1977/78
to $197M in 1982/83, that is to say an addition
of $327M over the 5-year period.