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As requested, the matter/now aged before the main
Committee for discussion in conjunction with Mr. McDouall,
and the Committee's further recommendations are invited
accordingly.
3.
Co-ordination between voluntary social welfare
organisations.
In the Report on his visit, Mr. Chinn recommended that
a survey of voluntary organisations should be undertaken with
a view to obtaining some measure of co-ordination through a
central authority, e.g. a strengthened Social Welfare Council.
In a despatch commenting on this recommendation, the Governor
said that the Social Welfare Office had already carried out
a survey of all the most important voluntary organisations.
The despatch continued:-
"Co-ordination between them is impossible of
achievement at one blow, partly because most European-
type organisations are reluctant to do so, and partly
because the majority of voluntary organisations in
Hong Kong are purely Chinese with few or no English-
speaking members. These are two of the reasons why
Efforts
the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (formerly
called the Hong Kong Social Welfare Council) has proved
unable to achieve any effective co-ordination of aims
or work amongst the voluntary social services.
have therefore been made by the Social Welfare Office
to bring together groups of voluntary organisations who
have a clear common interest. A considerable measure
of success has been achieved with regard to youth
organisations, who have now established a representative
Standing Conference of Youth Organisations.
In a very
short time it is expected that the Kaifong (Residents ↓)
also
Welfare Association will be setting up their own central
co-ordinating body.. No success has been achieved in
getting the European-type Relief Organisations to work
together either among themselves or with the Social
Welfare