Psychology, Library Technique and Development, Special Education and Special Welfare Services.
87 The Training Unit of the Social Welfare Department continued its work of giving part-time in-service training to staff already employed in voluntary agencies and government departments, including staff engaged in the day care of young children; the courses generally last five months, participants being released from work for a full week each month. It also began to offer refresher courses in the form of one day 'workshops' to those who had attended full courses in previous years. UNICEF funds financed three new posts in the unit for two years beginning in July and two of these posts have already been filled. The response from voluntary agencies to the efforts of the Training Unit remained very encouraging, and agency administrators continue their support of the various in-service training courses by sending their own staff for training.
88 During the year the training courses for nursery workers were strengthened to meet the increasing number of nurseries being opened; four courses were given, resulting in an output of seventy-six nursery workers with training in the year 1965. In addition, fifty-two workers attend three introductory courses in social work given on two levels, for welfare assistants with secondary school education and for graduates without professional training. Altogether forty-nine different voluntary agencies and three government departments participated in the training programmes. Training officers also give 'refresher' study groups for twenty nursery supervisors, twenty nursery workers and twenty-six social welfare workers who had their original training two or more years ago. The unit also runs staff development programmes for the department itself, for example monthly case-seminars for thirteen senior officers; similar ones were set up for another thirteen officers from community and social centres. Co-operative planning and teaching was also extended to other voluntary agencies, for example the training course organized by Christian Children's Fund for house-mothers in the Children's Garden at Wu Kwai Sha. In summary, one hundred and twenty-eight workers attended basic five-month courses, forty-six attended refreshers and two hundred and twenty-one attended various others, including staff orientation.
89 The Social Work Training Fund received no further capital contribution during the year but still succeeds in meeting all its im- mediate commitments from income, the capital remaining intact at $3,500,000. The grants during the year were used mainly to continue
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