Summer Programmes
70. The Summer Youth Programme has become an annual com- munity event. Over 200 community associations, groups and voluntary welfare organizations jointly engaged themselves with 15 District Youth and Recreation Co-ordinating Committees in the provision of a wide range of interesting and stimulating activities for about 1,000,000 young people. This programme helps to provide young people with the opportunity of using their leisure-time wisely and usefully. In this joint venture, the Division organized 411 events to cater for 98,000 children and youth during the summer of 1972. The emphasis was on community service, leadership training, group activities and outdoor programmes. A new feature of this year's programme is the participa- tion of young people in community study programmes.
CHAPTER VII
PROBATION AND CORRECTIONS
71. Probation officers are social workers in the service of the courts whose statutory duty is to inquire in accordance with any directions of the court into the social and family backgrounds of accused persons, to report to the courts on the results of these inquiries, and where the courts impose a probation order, to supervise such offenders, whether juvenile or adult, male or female, for a period of not less than a year and not more than three years as specified in the order so made.
72. A probation order requires a probationer to comply with the conditions specified in the order which govern his behaviour and help him to make an adequate adjustment in society. This work involves the practice of social work methods including individual and group counselling and the mobilization of social welfare facilities and resources which may be required to help resolve his problems and inadequacies and to achieve the necessary adjustment and rehabilita- tion. Probationers who fail to carry out the conditions of their orders are brought back to court to be dealt with in another way for the original offence, apart from any subsequent offence which they may have committed.
73. Social inquiry into each case involves a number of office inter- views and home visits and information comes from such sources as the
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