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TURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1984

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BESIDES, THE CLASSIFICATION OF AN EXPORTED COMMODITY

TO A PARTICULAR INDUSTRY DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THE ENTIRE AMOUNT OF THE COMMODITY IS ACTUALLY PRODUCED BY ESTABLISHMENTS OF THAT INDUSTRY, SINCE SOME MAY BE SECONDARY PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY ESTABLISHMENTS CLASSIFIED UNDER OTHER INDUSTRIES.

FURTHER DETAILS OF DOMESTIC EXPORTS STATISTICS FOR MERCHANDISE RECLASSIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL ORIGIN MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT (AT TEL. NO. 3-7224504).

A TABLE ON THESE STATISTICS FOR SELECTED INDUSTRIES IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE REPORT HONG KONG EXTERNAL TRADE, SEPTEMBER, 1983+.

MORE TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS ****

WITH MORE TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS FROM THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC AND THE FUTURE PLANNED PROVISION FROM THE NEW CITY POLYTECHNIC, IT WAS HOPED THAT THE SOCIAL WORK STAFFING SITUATION WOULD STEADILY IMPROVE, THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR JOHN CHAMBERS, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE THIRD GRADUATION CEREMONY OF THE PART- TIME DAY RELEASE DIPLOMA COURSE IN SOCIAL WORK AND THE CERTIFICATE COURSE IN CHILD CARE OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AT THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC,

MR CHAMBERS SAID THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT HAD RECENTLY IDENTIFIED A NUMBER OF TASKS WHICH COULD BE UNDERTAKEN BY UNTRAINED STAFF AND HAD CREATED A NEW WELFARE WORKER GRADE SIMILAR TO THAT ALREADY EXISTING IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR.

+WE HOPE THAT THIS ARRANGEMENT WILL FURTHER ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM BY ENSURING THAT THE BEST POSSIBLE USE IS MADE OF TRAINED MANPOWER, HE ADDED.

MR CHAMBERS SAID THAT THE SHORTAGE OF TRAINED SOCIAL WELFARE MANPOWER HAD BEEN WITH US IN HONG KONG FOR SOME YEARS, BUT ITS EXTENT BECAME CLEARER AFTER THE WELFARE CLASS REVIEW WAS CARRIED OUT IN 1979 AND 1981 FOR THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT AND THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR RESPECTIVELY.

*THIS REVIEW CLARIFIED THE RANKING OF THE POSTS REQUIRING TRAINED PERSONNEL, AND THE SUBSEQUENT 1981 REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON SOCIAL WELFARE MANPOWER REVEALED THAT THE SHORTAGE OF NON- GRADUATE TRAINED SOCIAL WORKER WAS EVEN GREATER THAN THAT OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES.+

HE SAID THAT THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, THE MAJOR SOURCE OF NON-GRADUATE TRAINED SOCIAL WORKERS, HAD PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN IMPROVING THE SITUATION.

/THE SOCIAL