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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1989
OPERATORS
"WHAT IS TO BE GAINED BY SHUTTING OUT COMPLETELY THE AND THE PROFESSIONALS FROM THE PROCESS OF DELIBERATION AND PLANNING?
"IS THE GOVERNMENT NOT AWARE THAT THERE ARE EXTREMELY COMPETENT
ON
OF THE AS THE
IMPROVEMENT
PRE-PRIMARY BODIES
ALLIANCE SUCH
KONG WHO POLICIES AND NON-PROFIT-MAKING KINDERGARTEN COUNCIL OF HONG COULD RENDER EXCELLENT AND INVALUABLE ADVICE?
"WHY IS THERE NO PLACE FOR THEM IN SHE ASKED.
TODAY'S
OPEN GOVERNMENT?'
MRS CHOW URGED THE GOVERNMENT TO SHARE VIEWS FROM "OUTSIDE THE MANDARIN'S CASTLE" AS SOON AS THE
OBJECTIVES OF TACKLING CLEAR EFFECTIVELY,
THE
PROBLEMS
ITS PLANS AND INVITO POSSIBLE, WITH EFFICIENTLY
AND
THE PROFESSIONAL
LEVEL OF
IN
KINDERGARTEN
UPGRADED BY SETTING AN ACCEPTABLE SALARY LEVEL,
THE
TEACHERS
BE
COULD TEACHERS AND BY SUBSIDISING WELL-OPERATED
NON-PROFIT-MAKING,
SALARIES OF KINDERGARTENS WHICH WERE SUFFERING FINANCIALLY, SHE SUGGESTED.
FEE
ASSISTANCE BY
ELIGIBLE
OF ON THE TAKE-UP RATE
PARENTS, SHE CALLED WHICH STOOD AT A DISMAL RATE OF 1.94 PER CENT IN 1988-89,
IMMEDIATELY
THE SO THAT SYSTEM
SCHEME FOR CHANGES TO THE PRESENT BENEFITTED AS MANY OF THOSE WHO WERE ELIGIBLE AS POSSIBLE.
CHILD COMMISSION ADVOCATED
*
IN HONG KONG
SAID IN THE
TO ENSURE ΤΟ IMPROVE LEGISLATIVE
A CHILD COMMISSION SHOULD BE SET UP THAT THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN HERE ARE MET, AND TO CONTINUE SERVICES FOR THEM. DR THE HON HENRIETTA IP COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN HONG SPEAKING IN THE DEBATE ON
A SAID
CHILD
THE KONG. DR IP
COMMISSION
CARRY ON WITH
YEAR CO-ORDINATION AND EVALUATION WORK OF THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL OF THE CHILD COMMISSION.
SHOULD
THIS WAS SET UP 10 YEARS AGO TO ADDRESS SERVICES FOR CHILDREN IN HONG KONG WERE IN NATIONS DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD.
THE KEEPING
QUESTION WHETHER WITH THE UNITED
THE COMMISSION WAS WOUND DOWN IN 1987.
WHILE AGREEING THAT HONG KONG HAD ACHIEVED MUCH IN MEETING RIGHTS OF CHILDREN OVER THE PAST DECADE. DR IP STRESSED THAT WE HAD A LONG WAY TO GO.
THE
STILL
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