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More child care centres and primary schools should be physically modified to assist disabled children.
Wherever possible small schools near large centres of population should be closed.
Small rural schools should be given priority in adopting the 'learning by doing' approach.
A number of inspectors should be earmarked for visiting schools in remote areas.
A survey should be conducted with a view to reviewing the inducement allowance for rural teachers.
A new scheme of fee-assistance operating on a sliding scale, lower income families, is proposed for day care centres and kindergartens. The existing subvention to non-profit-making child care centres should be discontinued.
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The Director of Social Welfare should have the power to control fees in child care centres.
Residential child care centres should continue to be subvented. Their intake should be restricted to those in real need of such
care.
Financial assistance should be provided to enable child care centres accepting disabled children to employ additional staff. Care for the more severely disabled should continue to be directly subvented.
The assistance provided for child care centres in land allocation, accommodation, reimbursement of rent and rates and in the fitting out costs for centres run by approved non-profit-making agencies should be continued.
Non-profit-making kindergartens operating in Public Housing Estates should receive rent assistance and allocation of premises on the same basis as child care centres.
Existing profit-making kindergartens in public housing estates should be encouraged to become non-profit-making.
100 additional places should be provided each year in special child care centres in order to meet the needs of mentally handi- capped children.
The care of less severely disabled children should take place in normal child care centres and a quota of subvented places should be provided for them.
Support should be given to the voluntary agencies to expand child care for disabled children.
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