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SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, as I said in
my main reply, the Medical and Health Department already
operates a
observation scheme.
Comprehensive
The
information available is also passed on to parents and I
think, Sir, it is the duty of good parents to draw the
schools' entraren's attention to serious problems affecting
their children. As I said in the main reply, I think we
can also encourage more widespread use of the family
particulars form by schools in order to enable parents
themselves to provide as much information to the schools as
possible. We will, of course, Sir, ask the Education
Department to consider issuing some guidelines on this
particular subject.
grogramme initially
conducted
MR. YEUNG : Sir, will Government consider extending the
useful combined screening
screening progra
for all Primary 1 pupils to all Form I students after a
lapse of six years for the benefit of secondary schools
too?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, I think it is
a matter of resources and priority.
The present scheme is
working fine but of course we have not thought it further
and we will certainly examine the suggestion.