WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986
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MORE PLACES FOR THE DISABLED
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FORTY-THREE SHELTERED WORKSHOPS AND WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES PROVIDING A TOTAL OF 4 320 PLACES WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON J.N. HENDERSON, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HUI YIN-FAT, MR HENDERSON SAID THERE WOULD BE 22 SHELTERED WORKSHOPS AND 21 WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES.
+THEY WILL PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL 2 960 SHELTERED WORKSHOP PLACES AND 1 360 WORK ACTIVITY CENTRE PLACES, HE SAID.
MR HENDERSON SAID THE SHELTERED WORKSHOPS AND WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES WOULD BE LOCATED EVENLY OVER THE TERRITORY, WITH ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THEM BEING IN NEW TOWNS.
FIVE SHELTERED WORKSHOPS FOR THE DISABLED, TO BE COMPLETED THIS FINANCIAL YEAR, WOULD BE LOCATED IN TSUEN WAN, SHA TIN, TAI PO AND TUEN MUN, AND PROVIDE A TOTAL OF 600 PLACES.
A FURTHER SIX WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES, PROVIDING 320 PLACES, WOULD OPEN IN WONG TAI SIN, HO MAN TIN, TAI PO, SHA TIN, AND TSING YI.
A TOTAL OF 1 130 PLACES WOULD BE PROVIDED BY FOUR SHELTERED
THE WORKSHOPS AND EIGHT WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES TO OPEN IN 1987-88. LARGEST WORK ACTIVITY CENTRE, WITH 200 PLACES, WOULD BE BUILT IN SHA TIN.
SEVEN SHELTERED WORKSHOPS, THE LARGEST BEING IN KWUN TONG, AND FIVE WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES WOULD BE COMPLETED IN 1988-89. TOGETHER THEY WOULD PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL 1 340 PLACES.
FOLLOWING THIS, SIX MORE SHELTERED WORKSHOPS AND TWO WORK ACTIVITY CENTRES WOULD BE BUILT, AND PROVIDE A FURTHER 930 PLACES FOR THE DISABLED.
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