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Thursday, March 16, 1972

PRESS BRIEFING ON FAMILY SERVICES

Head Of Division Invites Newsmen To Conference

Mr. T.P. Khoo, Senior Principal Social Welfare Officer and head of

the Family Services Division, Social Welfare Department, met the Press today

at an informal gathering in the West Kowloon District Office.

He took the occasion to introduce officers in charge of the Division's various branches throughout the Colony, and gave an account of how the Family

Services worked.

Mr. Khoo referred to the multiplicity of the Division's concern, from adoption and child care to rehabilitation of the disabled and their ultimate

placement in "open" employment.

He spoke about counselling services, liaison with the voluntary agencies,

responding to emergency situations, and work among the blind, the deaf, the

mentally retarded and the physically disabled.

Officers who met the Press on this occasion included Mrs. Evelyn

Doe, West Kowloon;

Mrs. Rosie Chiu Young, Mr. Choy Kim-fun, East Kowloon;

and Mr. Wallace Eastern District; Mrs. Wu Chan Kwai-hing, Western District;

Lee, New Territories.

Mr. Khoo thanked the journalists for their interest in the Division's work, and sought their views on how to improve mutual communications so as to

increase the harmony that already prevailed.

In this

The conference was the third in a series designed to familiarise working Journalists with different aspects of the Department's work. connection, the "spotlight" has already fallen on the Training Section, and the

Probation and Corrections Division.

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