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D22
Special schools are provided with social workers, physiotherapists
and artisans, occupational therapists and occupational therapy
assistants, speech therapists and speech therapy assistants,
school nurses, resource teachers and trade instructors as
appropriate, according to the standards of provision set out
in the codes.
Employment: industrial training
(i) The overall objective is to ensure that Hong Kong's industry,
commerce and services will have an adequate supply of trained
manpower for their continuing development.
Employers should be
responsible for practical training and the government for
complementary related technical education.
(ii) The specific objectives are: to assess manpower demand at all
levels; to assess trained needs and to develop and update job
standards and specifications, model training programmes and
trade test guidelines for principal jobs; to visit a proportion
of employers with a view to advising them on their training
requirements and demonstrating how improvements can be effected
and to persuade employers in both designated and non-designated
trades to enter into arrangements for apprenticeships and, in
respect of non-designated trades, to register voluntarily such
agreements; to advise and encourage young people to take up
industrial and commercial occupations through proper apprenticeship
schemes; to plan and implement any appropriate changes in the
scope and activities of industrial training where the government
is involved in the promotion; and to enforce the Apprenticeship
Ordinance (in particular, to promote and regulate apprentice
training in designated trades; to check whether "young persons"