mittee also made submissions to the 1971 Salaries Commission and has arranged an evaluation of the first youth work training course.
SOCIAL WORK TRAINING FUND
34. The Social Work Training Fund, set up by the Social Work Training Fund Ordinance, Cap. 1100, provided during the year finan- cial assistance of $152,101 which enabled 12 social workers to pursue courses of social studies at universities overseas. A number of other grants have been approved to enable individual delegates to attend conferences and seminars abroad relevant to social work training and a major grant is in hand for participation in the 1972 International Rehabilitation Congress in Sydney. This Fund issues its own annual report.
CHAPTER III
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
35. The Family Services Division consists of a decentralized network of casework offices and supporting specialist services which are cen- trally administered. Together they are capable of dealing with a wide variety of social problems affecting both individuals and families. They have been so organized that a person or a family with a multitude of social problems need normally approach only one casework office to obtain the assistance and advice they require.
CASEWORK SERVICES
36. Casework services provided by the Division include the follow- ing:
(a) counselling on problems involving family relationships;
(b) the protection of children and young persons in need of care; (c) services designed to rehabilitate the physically handicapped and
the mentally disabled;
(d) referrals to appropriate Government departments and welfare agencies for the purposes of obtaining special assistance; job placement; resettlement accommodation; hawker licences; school- ing for children; day and residential care.
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