SOCIAL WORK TRAINING FUND
33. The Social Work Training Fund, set up by the Social Work Training Fund Ordinance, Cap. 1100, provided during the year financial assistance of $152,232 which enabled 7 social workers to pursue course of social studies at universitics 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 to enable experts in social welfare to visit Hong Kong to give lectures, seminars etc. This Fund issues its own annual report.
CHAPTER IV
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
34. The Family Services Division consists of a decentralized net- work of casework offices and supporting specialist services which are centrally 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.
35. The casework service is provided through five District Offices and seven Family Services Centres. There are also one Children and Women Section and a Compassionate Resettlement Unit in the Divi- sion. The latter was established in January 1972 with the purpose of dealing with clients who had been recommended for rehousing on compassionate grounds by various departments and voluntary agencies including the Medical and Health Services Department, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, etc.
CASEWORK SERVICES
36. Casework services provided by the Division include the follow- ing:
(a) counselling on problems involving family relationships;
(b) the care of children and young persons;
(c) services for the physically handicapped and the mentally disabled;
(d) services for the elderly: