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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1987
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"THE BLUEPRINT ON SOCIAL WELFARE DEVELOPMENT-- SOCIAL WELFARE
HAS SINCE 1979 BECOME INTO THE EIGHTIES'
OUTDATED, AND THE TIME HAS COME FOR AN OVERALL REVIEW OF OUR SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY, HE SAID.
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HE SAID LONG-TERM, COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL PLANNING, INCLUDING
MANPOWER SOCIAL WORK
PLANNING, AND MORE AMBITIOUS PROGRAMMES IN
PROVIDENT FUND WERE RESPONSE TO NEW NEEDS SUCH AS THE CENTRAL
WELL WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT'S CAPABILITY.
NOT "A PROGRESSIVE, RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT DOES
ONLY ADDRESS NEEDS, BUT ALSO ITSELF TO LONG FELT
то ITSELF
ACTIVELY IMPROVING PEOPLE'S QUALITY OF LIFE WELL. BEYOND 1997," HE SAID.
COMMITS
TO POINT OUT OF SOCIAL QUALITY
ON SPECIFIC ISSUES, MR HUI SAID HE FELT OBLIGED ONE PROBLEM AREA THAT WAS SERIOUSLY AFFECTING THE WELFARE SERVICES SOCIAL WORK MANPOWER AND REGISTRATION.
SUICIDES, HOMICIDES THE INCREASINGLY
HE SAID RECENT FAMILY TRAGEDIES INVOLVING AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HAD ALERTED THE COMMUNITY TO SOPHISTICATED NEEDS OF SOCIETY AND BROUGHT INTO PUBLIC ROLE OF SOCIAL WORKERS.
LIMELIGHT THE
"AND THE QUESTION MUST BE ASKED
THEY HOW WELL ARE
EQUIPPED
TO EFFECTIVELY HANDLE COMPLICATED CASES?" HE SAID.
ESSENTIAL HOWEVER, HOC BASIS HAD WOULD BECOME A CRISIS
MR HUI SAID TRAINED PROFESSIONAL 9OCIAL WORKERS WERE TO THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES. HAPHAZARD SOCIAL WORK MANPOWER PLANNING DONE ON AN AD CREATED A DEMAND AND
SUPPLY PROBLEM WHICH UNLESS EARLY INTERVENTION TOOK PLACE.
THAT ESTIMATED
THE SHORTFALL FOR AND THAT
IN 1981, HE SAID, IT WAS GRADUATE SOCIAL WORKERS BETWEEN 1983 AND 1987 WOULD BE 705, FOR NON-GRADUATES WOULD BE 1,050.
VARIETY OF REASONS "HOWEVER, IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, DUE TO A
PROJECTS, THE SUPPLY OF TRAINED THAT INCLUDED SLIPPAGE IN
SOCIAL SOCIAL WORK WORKERS OUTSTRIPPED DEMAND. 30 MUCH SO THAT IN 1985 OUR GRADUATES COULD NOT FIND EMPLOYMENT SOME SIX MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION."
VOLATILE
EMPLOYMENT
HE SAID THE
SITUATION HIT SOCIAL WORK DIPLOMA HOLDERS WHO HAD TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF OF INADEUATE MANPOWER PLANNING.
HARDEST AT THE EFFECTS
BY AUGUST THIS YEAR, HE SAID, ONLY 88 DIPLOMA HOLDERS WERE PLACED IN JOBS.
OF THE
220 GRADUATING
HUI MR
WERE CAUSING
SAID APART FROM THE LACK OF UNFAVOURABLE WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE SOCIAL WELFARE
WASTAGE OF SOCIAL VOLUNTARY AGENCIES
JOB
OPPORTUNITIES, DEPARTMENT AND WORKERS, THUS
AGGRAVATING THE MANPOWER SITUATION.
/HE SAID
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