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For children generally :
an extra 1400 day nursery places
447 day creche places
175 residential home places
9 small group homes
75 occasional child care places and
40 foster care places;
For vulnerable children:
an extra 32 social workers for the child protection and custody services;
For youths at school:
22 extra school social workers;
To strengthen family support:
an extra 68 family caseworkers
11 clinical psychologists and 12 home help teams;
A new counselling centre for psychotropic substance abusers
A comprehensive package of improvements to the comprehensive social security assistance scheme
On health, the Government recurrent spending will grow to $22.6 billion.
New facilities will include:
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830 additional hospital beds
8 new patients and carers resources centres
3 new general out-patients clinics
3 new elderly health centres
2 new maternal and child health centres