5-
Thursday, September 27, 1973
SOCIAL WELFARE BOTH AN AIM AND A METHOD
The Director of Social Welfare, Mr. K.W.J. Topley, said today
that social welfare is both an aim and a method.
"The aims of social welfare are closely bound up with the
methods we use to get there," he said,
It was significant, he said, that the same word social welfare
was used both for what we do and what we are trying to arrive at.
Speaking at the luncheon meeting of the 100 Club at the Hong
Kong Hilton, he said that real welfare means getting as many people
involved as possible .... "people with wider interest, concern for others,
and working with other people."
Mr. Topley said: "If it's everybody's welfare we want then all
must get into the act or we will be using a very cold blueprint that does not
reflect what we really want.
"Vielfare isn't just a job for the government but for all sorts
of people."
It is for this reason Mr. Topley said that the Social Welfare
Five Year Plan was worked out with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service
on the videst possible basis of consultation getting as many people
involved as possible.
He congratulated members of the 100 Club on recognising a need
by taking up the task of helping the victims of viclent crimes at about
-
the same time that government's own scheme was launched.
He suggested