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Thursday, March 16, 1972
PRESS BRIEFING ON FAMILY SERVICES
Head Of Division Invites Newsmen To Conference
Mr. T.P. Khoo, Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer and head of
the Family Services Division, Social Welfare Department, met the Press today
at an informal gathering in the West Kowloon District Office.
He took the occasion to introduce officers in charge of the Division's various branches throughout the Colony, and gave an account of how the Family
Services worked.
Mr. Khoo referred to the multiplicity of the Division's concern, from adoption and child care to rehabilitation of the disabled and their ultimate
placement in "open" employment.
He spoke about counselling services, liaison with the voluntary agencies,
responding to emergency situations, and work among the blind, the deaf, the
mentally retarded and the physically disabled.
Officers who met the Press on this occasion included Mrs. Evelyn
Doe, West Kowloon;
Mrs. Rosie Chiu Young, Mr. Choy Kim-fun, East Kowloon;
and Mr. Wallace Eastern District; Mrs. Wu Chan Kwai-hing, Western District;
Lee, New Territories.
Mr. Khoo thanked the journalists for their interest in the Division's work, and sought their views on how to improve mutual communications so as to
increase the harmony that already prevailed.
In this
The conference was the third in a series designed to familiarise working Journalists with different aspects of the Department's work. connection, the "spotlight" has already fallen on the Training Section, and the
Probation and Corrections Division.
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