be adequate housing, particularly for those families who are unable to qualify for resettlement or low cost housing in the normal way. For such families the quota of rooms available for resettlement on compas- sionate welfare grounds has been steadily increased, and during the year over 700 families were resettled in this way.
7. New legislation to control child care centres in order to ensure proper standards in day nurseries and other institutions catering for care of children is being prepared. In the field of moral welfare, legislation aimed at making boarding house accommodation less easily available for immoral purposes and to prohibit the sale of liquor to young persons and their employment on licensed premises is being drafted.
8. New projects which are expected to be completed within the year 1968-69, and on which much work was done during the year under review, include a day centre constructed at Kwun Tong with the assist- ance of a generous donation from the World Rehabilitation Fund, Inc. which will provide specialized services and vocational rehabilita- tion to 340 disabled persons; another centre in Kwun Tong for mentally retarded persons which will serve both as a training centre and a hostel; and an approved school at O Pui Shan for 140 boys between 8 and 14 years of age. Planning was further advanced on two community centres which may become available in 1969. One is at Chai Wan and the other in the New Territories at Yuen Long. These are being planned with the benefit of the experience gained from the operation of the four existing community centres.
9. A major commitment during the year was the joint planning exercise being carried out in consultation with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and other Government Departments with a view to translating the policy for social welfare services approved by Legislative Council in 1965 into concrete form. A comprehensive five year plan for the period 1968-69 to 1972-73 is being drafted covering all aspects of social welfare services in Hong Kong including welfare of children, youth, the aged, abandoned babies, the disabled and the needy as well as the training of social workers without whom the services could not be operated. This plan will form a basis of medium-term development in both the public and voluntary sectors, and is now in its final stages of preparation.
10. Planning of future development of social welfare has been carried out as a continuous and progressive exercise and was in train long before
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