unusual understanding and co-operation on the part of the staff. Reports are submitted to juvenile courts on every boy who has been remanded for inquiries. These reports are based on close observation of the boys by supervisors responsible for them. They give information about their response to the environment of the Home and behaviour generally, and they make a valuable addition to the probation officers' reports. Begonia Road Boys' Home has to accept a number of juveniles suffer- ing from some degree of physical or mental handicap. A caseworker from the ranks of the Probation Service is now a permanent feature of the Home with duties similar to those in Castle Peak.
58. Ma Tau Wai Girls' Home caters for smaller numbers than the Boys' Home, and serves a larger combination of purposes. It is a place of detention for arrested girls awaiting appearance in court, and is an approved institution under the Probation of Offenders Ordinance. It is also used as a 'place of refuge' for girls who while having behaviour problems are not necessarily guilty of criminal offences. Although fewer women and girls are taken in crime it is a fact that for the female a moral problem and a delinquent one are often indistinguishable. Ma Tau Wai Girls' Home provides classroom teaching and informal activities, but among girls more reliance must be placed on individual casework than on group therapy, which nevertheless has a part to play in remedial treatment. In recognition of this a caseworker drawn from the Probation Service is now part of the staff of the Home.
59. During the disturbances of 1967-68, both Begonia Road and Ma Tau Wai Girls' Homes were made use of as places of remand, and to a less extent, as places of short detention for juveniles mostly school boys and school girls, who took part in rioting, illegal assembly, etc. In all, the Begonia Road Boys' Home had 154 on remand with 17 finally detained, compared with the Girls' Home's figures of 45 on remand with 6 under detention.
60. Staff development progressed steadily during the year with the appointment of a full time Principal Social Welfare Officer in charge of Correctional Institutions since September 1967. Training courses organized jointly by the Probation and Corrections Division and the Training Section covered supervisors of these and voluntary institutions in this field, namely, the Shing Tak Street Boys' Centre, the Juvenile Care Centre and the Norway Hostel of the British Commonwealth Save the Children Fund. The Correctional Institutions Section also organized a joint open day of correctional institutions which was held
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