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Personal Social Work Among Young People
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The young people of Hong Kong already have access to
a wide variety of cultural and leisure activities organized by the
Government, the Urban Council and voluntary organizations.
The New
Country Parks Authority will be developing some 200 miles of mountain,
valley and beach for recreation. The Urban Council is continuing its
programme to construct more football pitches, courts and games areas,
outdoor stadia, indoor games halls and swimming pool complexes. Together
these facilities cater for an ever-increasing number of young people and
will provide a healthy outlet for their energy.
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At a more basic level, the Government has stepped up its
efforts in improving public housing, education and medical and health
facilities for the community. The White Paper on Senior Secondary and
Tertiary Education outlines an ambitious programme of development which
will provide greater opportunities for education at the senior secondary
and tertiary levels.
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The Government is conscious that those developments,
whilst benefiting the majority of young people, must be supplemented by
more intensive personal guidance and help for a minority group whose
individual needs and problems cannot be met by the basic community
services and who are not attracted to organized activities. Personal
social work among young people is designed particularly to help those
aged between 6 - 20, with the overall objective of reducing and
preventing anti-social and delinquent behaviour. To this end, it is
proposed to develop those services which will reach young people at
school, in their homes and in society at large to improve understanding
between them and their families and to inculcate a sense of responsibility
and moral values.
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With the introduction of nine years of free and compulsory
education for all, our schools should reach all young people during the
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