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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1987
OTHER RELATIVES
LADY WILSON BELIEVED THAT IN ADDITION TO PROFESSIONALS, PEOPLE INCLUDING REHABILITATED ABUSIVE PARENTS, FRIENDS AND AND THE COMMUNITY ALSO HAD THEIR ROLE TO PLAY.
THAT SHE OBSERVED
IN SOME PLACES, ABUSIVE PARENTS, AFTER SELF-HELP GROUPS OR INVOLVEMENT IN TREATMENT PROGRAMMES, HAD FORMED SET UP "HOT-LINES" TO PROVIDE HELP AND ADVICE IN AN EMERGENCY.
**THESE CAN PROVIDE THE KIND OF SUPPORT OFTEN ALCOHOLICS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WHICH HAVE BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL.
FOUND PROGRAMMES,
BY
ALSO NEED THE
"THE ABUSIVE, OR POTENTIALLY ABUSIVE, FAMILIES SUPPORT OF THEIR RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND THE COMMUNITY," SHE SAID.
AND SHE HOPED THAT THE CONFERENCE WOULD GENERATE SOME GUIDANCE
URGED THE ACTION ON THIS POTENTIALLY VALUABLE NETWORK OF SUPPORT AND
HEAR AND LEARN FROM PROFESSIONALS TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND IN ORDER TO WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.
OF IN RECENT AND VOLUNTARY OF THE PROBLEM OF
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
ALSO SPEAKING ΑΤ THE CONFERENCE, THE EDUCATION, MR DAVID LAN, SAID THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HAD YEARS WORKED CLOSELY WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AGENCIES TO PROMOTE AT SCHOOL LEVEL AN AWARENESS CHILD ABUSE.
IT WAS AT THIS LEVEL THAT MUCH
AND TREATMENT
COULD BE DONE IN
DEVISING IN
THE EARLY AND ADOPTING
DETECTION
OF CASES AND EFFECTIVE PREVENTIVE MEASURES, HE SAID.
OUR TEACHERS, BOTH AT THE
IN-SERVICE
WITHIN "THE PROBLEM OF CHILD ABUSE IS DEALT
THE TRAINING OF INITIAL TRAINING AND DURING TRAINING" MR LAN SAID, ADDING THAT THE GUIDANCE OFFICERS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WERE PROVIDED WITH APPROPRIATE TRAINING ON HOW
CASES IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE TO DEAL WITH SUCH
SOCIAL WELFARE
DEPARTMENT AND OTHER AGENCIES.
SCHOOLS WITH
"ADDITIONALLY, THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON THE APPROPRIATE WAYS OF HANDLING INCIDENTS OF CHILD THROUGH THE ISSUE OF INFORMATION LEAFLETS AND PROCEDURAL GUIDES."
ABUSE
"
SOLVED,
THESE DIRECTIONS, Ι "BUT IN SKETCHING THE EFFORTS WE MAKE IN AM FAR FROM WISHING TO SUGGEST THAT WE REGARD THE PROBLEM AS HE SAID.
"ON THE CONTRARY, CONSCIOUS THAT THERE IS
WE. THE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT ARE
IN
LEARNT TO BE
STILL MUCH PARTICULARLY AS TO WAYS IN WHICH A APPROACH, BY ALL PARTIES CONCERNED, CONTINUED.
CAN
VERY
THIS FIELD, CO-ORDINATED AND EFFECTIVE RE FURTHER DEVELOPED, HE
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