POLICY AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
97. The Advisory Committee on Social Work Training whose com- position and terms of reference are set out in Appendix 2, generally co-ordinates and offers advice to government voluntary welfare agencies and the Universities on matters concerning social work education. It met five times during the year, and considered a series of questions in connection with specific training needs and responsibilities of welfare assistants. In particular, it studied the expansion of the social work programmes of local universities for training of more qualified social workers.
98. Apart from Government bursaries and various scholarships for social studies tenable at the Universities, the Social Work Training Fund, which was set up by the Social Work Training Fund Ordinance, Cap 1100, provided during the year financial assistance to the extent of some $208,664 which enabled 10 individuals to pursue courses of social studies at both local, overseas universities, as well as the attend- ance of delegates at the Joint ECAFE/UNICEF Workshop in Social Welfare In-service Training to be held in February, 1970 in Hong Kong.
WORKSHOP IN SOCIAL WELFARE IN-SERVICE TRAINING
99. At the request of the Economic Commission of Asia and the Far East and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, the Department took part in planning and organizing a Joint ECAFE/UNICEF Workshop in Social Welfare In-service Training and hosted a 7-day study tour (from 17 to 25 February 1970) in Hong Kong to form a part of the second phase of this special programme. The Workshop was planned in view of the fact that a number of governments in this region had requested technical assistance from the above UN organizations in improving their training facilities for pro- grammes benefiting families, children and youth. The Workshop provided an opportunity to the administrators and teachers of social welfare in-service training institutions or units of government depart- ments of social welfare, to exchange experiences, to analyse training needs and problems and to learn more effective ways for planning and implementing an integrated training programme for the improvement of the quality of services. Delegates from the following countries: Ceylon, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, participated in the Workshop.
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