important, because upon it depends the final emergence in Hong Kong of a strong and united body of social workers, forming a highly-skilled and academically qualified phalanx of people with fully professional standards. Constructive services require well-trained staff of this calibre, whether they are to be employed in the voluntary or in the official field. During 1963, the Social Welfare Department further consolidated its policy of encouraging and assisting in the development of a comprehen- sive, speedy and integrated programme of social work training, which has been the keynote of reports for the last few years. The three social work training consultants, Professor Alan KLEIN, Mrs. Josephine CHAISSON and Miss Martha MOSCROP, continued to advise and to assist in making this programme both practical and appropriate to Hong Kong conditions. Volume I of their report entitled 'a Training Programme for Social Work in Hong Kong', which deals with academic training, was completed and published in November; its recommendations are being studied by the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Government. Professor KLEIN has left but Mrs. CHAISSON was still in Hong Kong at the end of the year, continuing to advise on curricula, to teach classes and to hold regular supervisors' meetings for both Univer- sities; she also ran three study weekends for the Hong Kong Social Workers' Association and planned a fourth.
86. Miss MOSCROP's report on in-service training was already in print at the end of March and ready for publication as Volume II: Miss MOSCROP herself departed in December, but even before her recommenda- tions are examined it can be said that the Department's Training Unit, which was established under her guidance, has achieved valuable results in in-service training. This unit was set up with an initial two-year grant from UNICEF, in recognition of the extensive training deficiencies to be met before Hong Kong could have social workers of quality in the number needed even to keep abreast of the most pressing social problems.
87. The response from voluntary agencies to the efforts of the Training Unit continued to be very encouraging. Agency administrators col- laborated with the Training Officers in the planning of the second series of course syllabi and experienced and qualified social workers from outside organizations undertook some of the teaching. Of a hundred and ninety individual applications for the generic training courses, a hundred and thirty-five came from voluntary organizations; forty have already finished their training, and forty more will be taken in shortly.
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