officers took a Special Certificate Course in Social Welfare, newly introduced in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
97. 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 continued to offer refresher courses in the form of one-day 'workshops' to those who had attended full courses in pre- vious years. UNICEF finances three posts in the unit and has agreed to finance a further seven posts when the Lady Trench Demonstration Nursery and Training Centre is opened. The Centre, which will be managed by the Social Welfare Department, will provide day care for one hundred children of working mothers in association with a practical training centre for day nursery workers, as well as courses for group workers, youth leaders and recreation and playground leaders. Included in the training programme will be courses and seminars for youth work supervisors, pre-service courses for newly recruited nursery workers and youth leaders, field work training for university students and some provision for practical research into the development and behaviour of young Chinese children. It is estimated that the five storey building will cost about $1.2 million to build and another $200,000 to equip. Sir Shiu-kin TANG has offered to contribute half of the cost of the building up to a maximum of $750,000 and the balance of the capital cost of the project will be met from a grant from the Lotteries Fund. A formal application has been made to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for assistance in equipping the Centre and in paying part of the staffing costs during the first three years of operation. Such assistance would amount to about $338,500. After the three year period, Government will bear the running cost of the Centre in full. UNICEF has in the past generously supported child welfare, training and youth programmes. This Centre, which is expected to be ready by 1968, will and substantially to the Colony's training facilities which are essential to the effective functioning of social welfare services. The Centre will also provide much-needed day care facilities for children between two and six years of age of working parents who live in Wan Chai.
98. During the year three courses were given training fifty-two nursery workers. In addition, sixty workers attended three introductory courses in social work given on two levels, for welfare assistants with
43