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and religious organizations which contribute generously in work and resources in many forms of social service. The Hong Kong Council of Social Service has the very important functions and aims of preventing duplication, co-ordinating services, planning for future needs and interpreting these needs to the public; its new director arrived in September.
The Government and the Social Welfare Department are also fortunate in having the advice of a strong and helpful unofficial Social Welfare Advisory Committee to give guidance and prompting on welfare questions. This committee advised in the preparation of a policy statement published in draft in November as a White Paper entitled 'Aims and Policy for Social Welfare in Hong Kong' which led to much public discussion and will be debated by the Legislative Council early in 1965.
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