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Thursday, December 21, 1972

SOCIAL WORK TRAINING FUND

Eleventh Annual Report Lists Latest Grants

Twelve social workers, including officers in the Government and

voluntary agencies, were assisted with cash grants from the Social Work

Training Fund during the year ending on March 31, 1972, to enable them

to pursue further studies abroad.

The expenditure involved amounted to $152,101.

In addition, says the Director of Social Welfare, Trustee of the

Fund, in the 11th annual report just published, selected representatives

from local welfare organisations and the Government had been able, through

the Fund, to take part during the year in social work conferences abroad.

In this connection, a grant from the Fund enabled an official from

the Chinese University of Hong Kong to attend the Executive Board of the

International Association of Social Workers in Edinburgh in July, 1971.

Another grant enabled four Hong Kong representatives to participate

in the International Conference on Social Work in Singapore a month earlier,

A third grant made it possible for the Chinese University of

Hong Kong to send two representatives to the Seminar on Social Work Education

in Bombay in October.

The 12 individual grants enabled social workers to attend the

University of Toronto, the University College of Swansea, and McGill

University, among others, and courses taken up included those leading

to the Master of Social Work degree.

The Social