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as for remand. The Home has accommodation for 54, and during the year 3,286 cases, of whom 356 were girls, were admitted and discharged.
Castle Peak Boys' Home is administered by the Salvation Army under an agreement with Government which expires in March 1958, after which it is to be taken over by the Government and run by the Probation Section as an Approved School. This institution caters for 100 boys undergoing vocational training for a period of between two years and five years. The curriculum includes carpentry, shoemaking and leatherwork, rattan work and gardening. Also administered by the Salvation Army is a Girls' Home at Kwai Chung which provides training in needlework, rattanwork and housework.
Three institutions of particular value to the Probation Section are the Hong Kong Sea School, Stanley, which specializes in sea-training for 300 poor boys who, after completing their course of two to three years, are offered immediate employment by shipping companies; the Chil- dren's Centre, Kowloon, which offers primary education and vocational training for over 100 poor children; and the Juvenile Care Centre on the Island which was established with the express aim of preventing juvenile delinquency. The Juvenile Care Centre provides primary education and vocational training for over' 800 boys and girls who are admitted upon the recommendation of probation officers and welfare agencies.
Youth Organizations. There are many thousands of children in the Colony who have no real home life and for whom no formal education is available. Youth organizations strive to provide a stable background for these children, mainly by establishing clubs where children can engage in a variety of activities such as games, inter-club competitions, visits to places of educational value, physical training, simple reading and writing, and handicrafts. These clubs operate full-time. They are not the spare-time institutions