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Kong. The Social Work Training Fund Committee approved grants amounting to $304,150 in support of university courses and granted $158,500 to five people to allow them to undergo training either locally or overseas. The Advisory Committee on Social Work Training, responsible for the promotion and co- ordination of training for social workers in Hong Kong at all levels, continued to meet regularly and, amongst other things, appointed a sub-committee to prepare a special course for expe- rienced senior workers and to advise on and supervise the operation of the course, which the Extra Mural Department of The Chinese University began towards the end of the year.
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The Social Welfare Department training unit gave basic training to 142 welfare workers in eight courses, offered five refresher courses and studies on specific subjects, began to develop its own staff development programmes and, in addition, conducted staff training programmes for certain of the voluntary agencies.
A research project on the changes in urban family life was inaugurated on 1st July. Under the general direction of a supervisory board composed of local people, the survey is being conducted by the Director of the Social Survey Research Centre of The Chinese University. The results are expected to be available in 1968–9.