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controlled environment where offenders can receive academic,
prevocational and social training.. Aftercare services,
including counselling, family visits and assistance with
accommodation, job and school placements, are provided for
all young offenders who are committed to residential
institutions.
Whilst there is sufficient number of places in these
residential institutions to meet the present demand the
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Department plans to provide a new home for girls in Tuen Mun
and to reprovision two of the Boy's Homes.
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Sir, I hope I have said enough to reassure Members
that the Social Welfare Department and the subvented welfare
already agencies provide a comprehensive range of social work based
services to help our young people grow up into responsible
members of the community and to provide help for those who
have particular problems. These services are co-ordinated
through the mechanism of the Social Welfare Five-year Plan,
The voluntary agencies through which is reviewed at regular intervals in collaboration with
Sin the Council of Social Service. While it is a sad fact of
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life that there are young people in our society, as in all
quite
others, who go astray, I think it would be wrong to give the
a
impression that they represent the majority or even a large
of Hong Kong's youth.
proportion I believe that most of our young people are
prepared to study and work hard and to behave responsibly,
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and this must be a good augury for the future of Hong Kong.
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Sir, I support the motion.
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