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LIST OF PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES NOW WHOLLY UNDERTAKEN, OR SUBSTANTIALLY
SHARED, BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE OFFICE.
1. Liaison with and subventions to foundling homes and orphanages.
Child Welfare (all Child Welfare work except medical and scholastic).
Protection of Women and Juveniles.
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Adoptions.
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Children who are physical or mental deviates and not under medical care.
Old Persons welfare.
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Family case work and family welfare.
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Youth Welfare and all Youth Services, except formal education.
Juvenile Delinquency (Probation Service and plans for Remand Homes, Approved Schools, Probation Hostels and After Care for Adult Juvenile prisoners).
Seamen's Welfare (for visiting merchant seamen of all races, through Port Welfare Committee).
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Squatter screening.
Suicides.
13. Repatriation of destitutes (except distressed British seamen).
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Moral Welfare (for juvenile prostitutes only).
15. Emergency Relief Measures (after typhoons or fires, planning for internal emergencies, and civil defence welfare services).
16. Housing (principally for re-housing of squatters or victims of natural disasters; also on Co-ordination Committee for over-all
housing plans).
17. Recreation (especially for the under-privileged).
Social statistics and Surveys (principally on the underprivileged and on the youth of the Colony).
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Community Development (in urban areas through Kaifong Associations).
Co-ordinations of Social Welfare work (both voluntary and departmental). 21. Training of Social Workers (in co-operation with University, Education Department and certain voluntary organisations have started training classes).
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Six multi-functional Welfare Centres.
23. Three special Camps (including one for about 6,000 Nationalist refugees).
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