people in Sha Tin have already been purchased using funds fr the Special Coin Suspense Account. A further 23 flats have
been identified for purchase in the urban area, and it is expected that they will be ready for occupation by the spring of next year.
76.
Next year will also see the addition of 385 hostel
places, 560 home places and 475 care and attention places for the elderly. Much of the headway made in this field has been possible because of the efforts of the voluntary
the voluntary sector. ΤΟ complement their efforts, plans are now in hand for the Government to operate some of these services directly.
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(ii) Services for the disabled
There will be better rehabilitation services for
children. To improve the identification and assessment of
disabilities at an early stage, the two existing child
assessment centres will be increased to eight by 1988. A Working Party is reviewing pre-school care, training and education of disabled children,
children, and is expected to report in early 1984. A new combined screening programme for all Primary two pupils, to detect children with vision, hearing, speech and learning difficulties, is already achieving almost 100% coverage. New intensive remedial services are being introduced ordinary schools to cater for children with learning difficulties.
in
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750
In the field of vocational rehabilitation, additional places in three new vocational training centres for the disabled will be provided by 1988; expansion of sheltered workshops to provide an additional 550 places per year over the next five years is also planned. A stepped-up programme of public education, aimed at encouraging public understanding and acceptance of the disabled, will help their integration into the community in which they live.
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