the Special Welfare Services Section
(services for the handicapped);
the Child Welfare Section
(including adoptions, day care and institutions for children);
the Women and Girls' Section
(moral welfare);
the Relief Section
(public assistance and emergency relief); and
the Training Unit
(in-service training)
9. In addition to its direct services to people in need, the Department tries to give leadership to others in the social welfare field in improving the quality and training of social workers, and stimulates fact-finding and social investigation; it encourages and co-operates in the extension of voluntary services to fill newly discovered or unmet needs, and in the re-orientation of agency services where this is necessary in order to keep abreast of the times; and it operates a number of pilot or training projects.
10. Under the Principal Officers there serve both professional staff and specialist employees. Secretarial, clerical, accounting and office staff complete the establishment. A summary of the senior staff and of the establishment is given by sections and by categories at Appendix 5.
11. Total expenditure during the year on social welfare falling within the Department's purview was, in round figures, $11,530,000, of which subventions to forty-six voluntary agencies accounted for $4,330,000, direct welfare work for nearly $2,420,000, and salaries and other admin- istrative expenses for the remainder. Appendix 4 gives the figures in detail and compares expenditure with that in the previous year and with the amount voted by the legislature for the next financial year.
CHAPTER II
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
12. One imperative need is obvious in Hong Kong; this is actively to stimulate a sense of community and social responsibility. The phenomenal growth of population and of economy alike make a lack of social cohesion as inevitable as it is disturbing. The population is now over three and a
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