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organising and directing local community resources in resolving
individual and communal problems.
Parallel with these district
machinery will be strengthened to co-ordinate Government and
voluntary efforts more effectively in this field.
Family Welfare Services
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The basic element of the family welfare programme
the counselling service - is well-established in Hong Kong, and since
1972 has been operating on a regional basis, bringing the service
closer to the people who need it. For the future, the main task in
this field will be to define the roles to be played by the Government
and by the voluntary agencies, and experiments towards this end are
already in hand.
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In recent years, family welfare services have been expanded
to include care for individuals, particularly children, outside the
immediate family environment, and it is in these areas that most future
development will take place. Child care is at present governed by
the Child Care Centres Ordinance and Regulations, and there is a need
to review both the effectiveness of this legislation, and the overall
relationship between child care centres and kindergartens and to
devise a co-ordinated approach to the services provided for pre-
school children. This subject is at present being considered by an
inter-departmental Working Party on the Care and Education of Pre-
Primary Children. A review will also be carried out of the adequacy
of services provided for the residential care of children, and of
the procedure followed in adoption cases. Precise policy guidelines
need to be formulated to govern the provision of home help in cases
of family or social need.
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