Question No.
employ disabled people in the industrial sector
?
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SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER :
Sir, the main incentive
we have at the moment is that there is an Employer Aid Fund,
funded by the Community Chest, which
provides
in order
subsidies for employers adapting equipment to employ disabled
people. This fund is not fully utilised, so I am glad
of this opportunity to give some publicity to it,
and draw employers' attention to this opportunity.
to try
DR. IP : Sir, I am grateful to know that 36 per cent of
the disabled people surveyed were in open employment.
Could the Secretary for Education and Manpower inform this
Council, in detail, what do the rest of them, namely,
64 per cent of all disabled persons do, using the same
method of estimation that he has used?
SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER :
Sir,
the main results of the survey were that
35.7 per cent of the five main categories
of disability, aged between 15 to 60, were in open employment.
7.5 per cent were in sheltered workshops.
The rest of
them fell into categories of unemployed job-seekers, 9.9 percent;
unemployed non-job-seekers, 22.1 per cent; students, 10.4 per
cent; home-makers, 10.4 per cent and the retired, 4 per
cent.