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4.
. Further Assistance for Child Care Centres
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This new scheme of fee assistance will not be applicable to
residential child care centres where most of the children are either orphans
or were found abandoned. No fees are charged in residential centres and the
Government intends to continue the direct subvention of these centres.
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The Green Paper envisaged that the provision of direct financial
assistance to meet recurrent costs would be discontinued with the introduction
of the fee assistance scheme although reimbursement of rent and rates would
still be provided. In response to the concern expressed by some
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agencies, the Government intends to retain an element of direct financial
assistance by providing registered non-profit-making child care centres with a
subvention equivalent to 5% of the approved fees based on the approved capacity.
The Government will also continue to provide direct financial assistance
to meet expenditure arising from additional staff employed by child care centres
which accept disabled children and for staff employed by special child care
centres for more severely disabled children.
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