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(viii) These facilities would be improved and extended
to ensure that they met the rising expectations
of the population and were within easy reach of
people of all age groups.
Programmes and activities
organized from these centres would be directed to
promoting community spirit and social responsibility
among the local communities.
In areas considered to
be in special need but which were not covered by
existing community facilities, special emphasis would
be given to organising and directing local community
resources to resolving individual and communal problems.
Parallel with these, district machinery would be
strengthened to co-ordinate government and voluntary
efforts more effectively in this field.
1980 Green Paper: Primary Education and Pre-primary Services
The 1980 Green Paper was based on the findings and
recommendations of two working parties: the Working Party on the Care
and Education of Children below Primary School Age and the Working
Party on the Review of Primary Education.
endorsed by a Steering Committee chaired by the Secretary for Social
Services. The findings and recommendations had been considered by
the Board of Education and by the Social Welfare Advisory Committee,
Both reports had been
as appropriate, and a number of recommendations arising from this
consultation were incorporated in the Green Paper. Matters concerning
primary education were presented in more detail than those concerning
pre-primary services. This was because there was a fundamental difference
in the nature of the review of these two areas. The pre-primary services
were of relatively recent origin and the concept of the general development
of these services was the main consideration in the Green Paper. In
the case of primary education the service was well established and its