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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993
EMPLOYMENT,
CANNOT COMMENTS APART
WITH THE INCREASING NUMBER OF MOTHERS IN FULL-TIME THERE IS A NEED FOR DAY CARE FACILITIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN WHO BE CARED FOR BY PARENTS DURING THE DAY. NOW CONTRARY TO THE MADE BY SOME MEMBERS, WE DO HAVE CRECHES, WE DO HAVE NURSERIES
OF DAY CRECHES HAS FROM
CARE CENTRES. INDEED THE PROVISION CHILD BEEN INCREASING AND DAY NURSERIES WILL BE EXPANDED. AS ANNOUNCED BY THE GOVERNOR IN HIS OCTOBER ADDRESS, SECURE FUNDING WILL BE TO IMPLEMENT THE TARGETS FOR CHILD CARE FACILITIES.
PROVIDED
CHILD CARR
AND I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THE IDEA OF WORK-BASED CENTRES IS PROMOTED AMONGST INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL EMPLOYERS. I SCHOOL MYSELF FOR ONE AM PROMOTING ONE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS. THE AFTER
WILL ALSO BE CARE PROGRAMME AND THE OCCASIONAL CHILD CARE SERVICE EXPANDED.
BEEN
THIS
I PAPER
HAVE
ON
WAS
SOME MEMBERS HAVE SUGGESTED THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION TO PREVENT PARENTS FROM LEAVING THEIR CHILDREN UNATTENDED AT HOME. HAS
AND ON DEBATED ON MANY OCCASIONS,
MANY OCCASIONS
BEEN
A CONSULTATIVE SORELY TEMPTED TO SUPPORT THIS IDEA.
HOME MEASURES TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM BEING LEFT UNATTENDED AT
WAS INDEED DISCUSSED IN OCTOBER. THE PUBLIC RESPONSE DURING THE TIME
PARENTS FROM THAT LEGISLATION SHOULD NOT BE INTRODUCED TO PROHIBIT LEAVING THEIR CHILDREN AT HOME ALONE. THE GENERAL CONSENSUS WAS PUBLIC EDUCATION SHOULD BE PROMOTED TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM
THIS AT
MORE OF OUR DEVELOPMENT. STAGE
CHILD CARE SERVICES SHOULD BE PROVIDED. I SUPPORT THIS CONCLUSION.
THAT CERTAIN CENTRES AND
ALSO PAY SUGGESTED
BY
SPECIAL THE
APART FROM HOME SAFETY, PARENTS SHOULD
IN ATTENTION
FOR
AS CHOOSING TOYS
CHILDREN HONOURABLE MR WONG. THE TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS SAFETY ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THIS COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR. ORDINANCE IS TO PROVIDE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR TOYS PRODUCTS IN ORDER TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM UNSAFE TOYS AND HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD, REMAIN VIGILANT IN CHOOSING TOYS AND PRODUCTS FOR THEIR CHILDREN,
OUTSIDE
ELECTRIC
CHILDREN ARE
GATES
THE PURPOSE OF THAT AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS. PARENTS MUST
то
ΤΟ
то
HOME, THE
ALSO EXPOSED
POTENTIAL
DANGERS. ESCALATORS,
CAN BE HAZARDOUS
YOUNG CHILDREN CHILDREN. PARENTS SHOULD ALWAYS KEEP AN EYE ON THEIR SMALL
PLAY AROUND WHEN GOING OUT WITH THEM AND SHOULD NEVER LEAVE THEM TO UNSUPERVISED. PARENTS
ATTENTION
ROAD ALSO PAY SPECIAL SHOULD SAFETY. A LOT OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INVOLVED CHILDREN PLAYING IN
THERE STREET OR
IN 1990, 1991 AND 1992, TRAVELLING IN A CAR. SOME 2493, 2631 AND 2533 CHILDREN AGED 14 AND BELOW INJURED, AND VERY SERIOUSLY, IN ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. I REGRET THAT THIS IMPORTANT ASPECT WAS NOT COVERED IN THIS COMPREHENSIVE DEBATE.
THE
WERE
SOME
VERY
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