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(xiii) the Education Department gradually to
assume responsibility for the planning and
development of prevocational and vocational
training for the disabled and to take over
from the Social Welfare Department the
responsibility of running such centres for
the disabled;
(xiv) supporting services, such as the provision
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of braille textbooks in Chinese and English,
to be improved;
special classes or units to be provided within
special schools for children with multiple
disabilities.
1977 Green Paper: Development of Personal Social Work among Young People in Hong Kong
20.
In July 1977 a programme plan on personal social work among
young people was completed: this covered the five-year period from 1978/79
to 1982/83 and was prepared in close consultation with interested government
departments and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. The main
recommendations of the programme plan were summarised and issued in
November 1977 as a Green Paper covering statements on the need and
objective of personal social work among young people, social work
among schoolchildren, social work among unattached young people, family
life education, ancillary provisions, manpower requirements, monitoring,
evaluation and research, and the implementation of proposals and
coordination of activities.
21.
The Green Paver defined the overall objective of personal social
work among young people as being "to reduce or prevent anti-social or
delinquent behaviour in young people" and stated that meeting this
objective entailed identifying young people at risk, assessing their
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