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Thursday, February 22, 1973

In the meantime, important details of four outstanding policy

issues are being resolved within the Government. They are:-

The Institute for Social Work Training.

The Severe Disability and Infirmity Allowance Scheme.

The Community Youth Officer Scheme.

Community Centres and children and youth services.

Of the four, the first two have already been approved by the

Government.

While the white paper was published last October as a draft

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a new departure for a Government document in Hong Kong its accompanying

five-year plan was, instead, circulated to the voluntary agencies on a

confidential basis, since some of the policies had not, at that time,

been endorsed by the Government as a whole.

But Mr. Strachan says the Social Welfare Planning Committee and

the Social Welfare Advisory Committee are now putting final touches to

the five-year plan "in the light of comments received from the agencies

and the Hong Kong Social Workers Association."

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He expects both documents to be published in their final forms

early in the new financial year.

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