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For People with a Disability
An additional 1664 residential places
1,150 day places
2 emergency residential care units
A new domiciliary occupational therapy service
5 clinical psychologists and
3 regional centres of the Community Rehabilitation Network for the chronically ill.
For children with a disability
An additional 240 pre-school places (of which six are extra places for autistic children in special child care centres with additional staff)
For children generally
An additional 3,149 day nursery places
362 day creche places
30 residential home places and
6 small group homes
To strengthen family support
An extra 7 family caseworkers and
3 home help teams
For young people at risk
14 extra school social workers and
1 more outreaching social work team
12 Additional medical social workers
A further improvement to the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme by allowing elderly recipients to receive their monthly standard payment while retiring to Guangdong.