a course in Community Development Work and Adult Education at the University of London, 1 a diploma course in Social Welfare and Administration at the University College of Swansea and 1 a special course in probation work arranged by the Home Office.
27. The Social Work Training Fund did not receive any additional contributions during the year but was able to meet all commitments from income. At the close of the year the Fund's capital remained at $3,500,000. Grants from the Fund were directed towards meeting additional costs incurred by the In-Service Training courses and the courses at Hong Kong University, $6,823.66 being devoted to in-service training and $30,000 to the University, as a first instalment of $51,000 voted for the academic year. The total expenditure, including a super- vision fee charged by Government to meet the management costs of the Fund, amounted to nearly $40,000. Details appear in a separate Annual Report on the Fund which has recently been published.
CHAPTER III
FAMILY AND CHILD WELFARE
28. Probably the most extensive need in the field of child welfare is still for day nurseries where young children below school age can be cared for while their mothers are at work. Strong and very welcome support in meeting this need was provided by UNICEF, which granted nearly HK$300,000 (U.S.$50,000) towards equipping fourteen existing and nine proposed day nurseries. During the next three years some thirty more will be able to secure basic equipment from the same source. This timely assistance will enable the day care programmes for pre-school children to be expanded much more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible.
29. A most promising trend, the result of further numerous adop- tions into families, was a shift of emphasis from long-term to short-term institutional care of children and from residential to day care, although there will always be a substantial need for long-term residential care. During the past year several premises have been converted into day nurseries to provide extra accommodation; nine new nurseries were opened for children aged two to six, together with three new play centres which admit rather older pre-school children. Some 5,000 young children were in day care at the end of the year, as against 3,250 a year earlier; but the need extends to many times this figure.
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