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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1974

SOCIAL WORK TRAINING COURSE FOR AFTER-CARE OFFICERS ******

THE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL WORK TRAINING TODAY BEGAN A THREE-WEEK SOCIAL WORK TRAINING COURSE FOR 18 ASSISTANT AFTER-CARE OFFICERS OF. THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE INSTITUTE HAS ORGANISED SUCH A COURSE FOR ANOTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT.

THE COURSE CONSISTS OF LECTURES AND FIELD VISITS AND WILL COVER AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK PRINCIPLES AND METHODS, HUMAN GROWTH AND BEHAVIOUR AND THE VARIOUS AREAS OF SOCIAL SERVICES IN HONG KONG.

IN A BRIEF INTRODUCTORY SPEECH TO THE TRAINEES THIS MORNING, MR. L.B. MACQUARRIE, THE PRINCIPAL, SAID WHEN THE INSTITUTE BEGAN IN 1973 IT WAS RECOGNISED THAT IT WOULD COME TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR TRAINING NOT ONLY IN SOCIAL WELFARE BUT EVEN MORE BROADLY IN OTHER FIELDS OF SOCIAL SERVICE AS WELL.

+WE ARE HAPPY TO MAKE OUR FIRST START AT HELPING TO MEET THESE BROAD COMMUNITY NEEDS FOR SOCIAL WORK TRAINING BY DEVELOPING THESE MUTUALLY HELPFUL RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT,+ HE SAID.

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MR. MACQUARRIE TOLD THE TRAINEES THAT WHILE THE COURSE WAS ONLY AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK SOME TOPICS WHICH WILL BE COVERED BRIEFLY WOULD TAKE ONE OR TWO YEARS OF INTENSIVE STUDY IN A PROFESSIONAL COURSE - IT WAS HOPED THAT THEY WOULD BE STIMULATED ENOUGH AND FIND THE COURSE USEFUL WHEN THEY WERE ACTUALLY ON THE JOB DOING AFTER-CARE WORK.

ALSO PRESENT AT THE CEREMONY WERE MISS K.A. HAUGHTON, SUPERINTENDENT OF TAI LAM CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND MR. CHAN WA-SHEK, PRINCIPAL OF THE PRISONS DEPARTMENT'S STAFF TRAINING INSTITUTE.

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NOTE TO EDITORS:

COPIES OF MR. MACQUARRIE'S SPEECH ARE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION FROM THE GIS PRESS ROOM, BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, 6TH FLOOR.

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