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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1981

EMPLOYERS URGED TO HELP SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED

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THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR SELWYN ALLEYNE, APPEALED TODAY (FRIDAY) TO MORE MANAGERS AND INDUSTRIAL ISTS TO HELP WITH THE RE-INTEGRATION OF THE SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED INTO THE COMMUNITY.

HE WAS SPEAKING AT A CEREMONY HELD AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL BY THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE COMMITTEE OF THE HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE TO THANK EMPLOYERS WHO HAD GIVEN JOBS TO SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE.

THE STAFF OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE HAD, OVER THE YEARS, WORKED ENERGETICALLY TO FIND PLACEMENT FOR AS MANY OF THE IR CLIENTS AS POSSIBLE, MR ALLEYNE SAID.

+HOWEVER, HE SAID, THE SUCCESS OF THE SERVICE DEPENDS EQUALLY ON THE WILLINGNESS OF EMPLOYERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WORK AND PERHAPS, FROM TIME TO TIME, TO MAKE A GAMBLE ON THE FUTURE POTENTIAL OF THE PERSON THEY ACCEPT FOR PLACEMENT.+

IN THE PAST YEAR, SOME 500 JOBS WERE FOUND FOR PEOPLE WHO SOUGHT ASSISTANCE.

MOST OF THE PEOPLE ASSISTED BY THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ARE DISCHARGED PRISONERS, PROBATIONERS, EX-DRUG ADDICTS, THE ELDERLY AND THOSE WITH PERSONAL ITY PROBLEMS.

♦THE SERVICE IS ALSO AVAILABLE TO NEWLY-ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS WHO MAY BE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO ADJUST TO LIVING CONDITIONS AND TO THE COMPETITIVE NATURE OF THE JOB MARKET HERE, MR ALLEYNE NOTED.

MOST OF THE SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE +SHARE A COMMON FEAR OF REJECTION OR STIGMATISATION BY EMPLOYERS, BASED ON THEIR PAST RECORD OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR OR POSSIBLE DOUBT AS TO THEIR ABILITY TO MIX WITH OTHER WORKERS,+ HE CONTINUED.

LORD KADOOR IE ***

A NOTICE IN THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE TODAY ANNOUNCES THAT THE QUEEN HAS BEEN PLEASED TO CONFER THE DIGNITY OF A BARONY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR LIFE UPON SIR LAWRENCE KADOOR IE.

THE FORMAL AND CEREMONIAL TITLE OF LORD KADOOR IE IS +BARON KADOOR IE, OF KOWLOON IN HONG KONG AND OF THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER+, BUT THE NORMAL STYLE IS LORD KADOOR IE+,

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