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Mr. Chinn's summary of his recommendations, and notes on action taken locally thereon.
Recommendation No.1.
"Early consideration should be given to establishing a separate Department of Social Welfare."
Comments
This recommendation is not accepted.
Recommendation No.2.
"The structure of the Social Welfare staff needs strengthening; the appointment of a deputy to the Social Welfare Officer and the temporary appointment of a trained European woman officer with case-work experience are urgently required,"
Comments. A deputy to the Social Welfare Officer will be provided from November 1950 to April 1951, and if possible a successor will be found thereafter. It is not considered that there would be any advantage in having a trained European woman officer with or without case work experience.
Recommendation No.3.
"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.
Comments. The Social Welfare Office has already carried out a survey of all the important voluntary organisations. 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 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. Efforts 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 cstablished a representative Standing Conference of Youth Organisations. a very short time it is expected that the Kaifong (Resident's) Welfare Associations will also be setting up their own central co-ordinating body. No success has been achieved in getting the European-type relief organisations t› work together either amongst themselves, or with the Social Welfare Office.
Recommendation No.4.
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"The treatment of delinquency should be the responsibility of a single authority preferably the Social Welfare organisation."
Comments. This is being put in hand now that the long awaited Principal Frbation Officer has arrived from the U.K.
Recommendation No.5.
"The proposals for training social workers should be adopted as soun as possible.'
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