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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1987

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SUBVENTION POLICY NEEDS OVERALL REVIEW

THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD CONDUCT AN OVERALL REVIEW ON

THERE WERE SO MANY

ITS SOCIAL

WELFARE SUBVENTION POLICY AS PROVISION OF SOCIAL SERVICE HERE, THE HON DESMOND LEE YU-TAI, SAID

PROBLEMS IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE IN

HE ADDED THAT THE REVIEW PANEL NEEDED NOT BE ONE BUT THERE MUST BE PARTICIPATION FROM OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT.

AN INTERNATIONAL

DEBATE

MR LEE WAS LEADING THE ADJOURNMENT SUBVENTION POLICY AS CONVENER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AD HOC

ON SOCIAL WELFARE PREPARING FOR THE DEBATE.

GROUP

HE NOTED THAT THE PRESENT SUBVENTION BASING ON A GOVERNMENT WORKING PARTY REPORT

SYSTEM WAS INTRODUCED COMPLETED AND A REVIEW REPORT BY A GOVERNMENT WORKING GROUP IN MAY THIS YEAR.

IN JUNE 1980

EXERCISES

WERE

UNDERTAKEN

HOWEVER, BOTH ADMINISTRATION AND THE MEMBERSHIPS OF THE WORKING

BY THE WORKING GROUP CONSISTED ENTIRELY OF OFFICIAL MEMBERS, HE SAID.

PARTY AND OF THE

"FOR THIS REASON, IT IS DIFFICULT ΤΟ SECTOR THAT THE TWO STUDIES ARE OBJECTIVE,

CONVINCE THE VOLUNTARY HE SAID.

COMMENTING ON THE STANDARD COST SYSTEM, MR LEE SAID THE

SIX MEMBERS BUT ALSO BY HEADS OF

WAS SUPPORTED NOT ONLY BY ALL THE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE; CONSULTED.

SYSTEM SPEAKING DURING THE AGENCIES WHOM HE HAD

BE EXTENDED TO APPLICATION OF THE

HOWEVER, HE OBSERVED THAT THE SYSTEM SHOULD COVER ALL SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES, AND THAT SYSTEM SHOULD BE IMPROVED.

THE

UNDER THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, MR LEE SAID, AND THE GOVERNMENT HAD

VOLUNTARY AGENCIES ENTERED INTO PARTNERSHIP, WHEREBY PROVIDED THE SERVICES AS REQUIRED, AND GOVERNMENT MADE

AGENCIES RESOURCES.

AVAILABLE THE

SPIRIT HAD NOT SEEMED THAT THERE

HOWEVER, HE REGRETTED THAT A JOINT ENTERPRISE BEEN ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE TWO PARTNERS AND WAS A LACK OF MUTUAL TRUST BETWEEN THE TWO.

IT

MR LEE POINTED OUT THAT ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT PRACTICE, STANDARD COST ASSESSMENT MIGHT NOT MEET THE ACTUAL REQUIREMENT OF SERVICE.

HE SAID AS SERVICE PROVIDERS, PREFER PARTICIPATION

STANDARD CONSULTATION AT THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL.

IN THE

THE

THE

THE VOLUNTARY COST SETTING

SECTOR WOULD PROCESS

AND

/MR LEE