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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1987

OTHER RELATIVES

LADY WILSON BELIEVED THAT IN ADDITION TO PROFESSIONALS, PEOPLE INCLUDING REHABILITATED ABUSIVE PARENTS, FRIENDS AND AND THE COMMUNITY ALSO HAD THEIR ROLE TO PLAY.

THAT SHE OBSERVED

IN SOME PLACES, ABUSIVE PARENTS, AFTER SELF-HELP GROUPS OR INVOLVEMENT IN TREATMENT PROGRAMMES, HAD FORMED SET UP "HOT-LINES" TO PROVIDE HELP AND ADVICE IN AN EMERGENCY.

**THESE CAN PROVIDE THE KIND OF SUPPORT OFTEN ALCOHOLICS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WHICH HAVE BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL.

FOUND PROGRAMMES,

BY

ALSO NEED THE

"THE ABUSIVE, OR POTENTIALLY ABUSIVE, FAMILIES SUPPORT OF THEIR RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND THE COMMUNITY," SHE SAID.

AND SHE HOPED THAT THE CONFERENCE WOULD GENERATE SOME GUIDANCE

URGED THE ACTION ON THIS POTENTIALLY VALUABLE NETWORK OF SUPPORT AND

HEAR AND LEARN FROM PROFESSIONALS TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND IN ORDER TO WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.

OF IN RECENT AND VOLUNTARY OF THE PROBLEM OF

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

ALSO SPEAKING ΑΤ THE CONFERENCE, THE EDUCATION, MR DAVID LAN, SAID THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HAD YEARS WORKED CLOSELY WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AGENCIES TO PROMOTE AT SCHOOL LEVEL AN AWARENESS CHILD ABUSE.

IT WAS AT THIS LEVEL THAT MUCH

AND TREATMENT

COULD BE DONE IN

DEVISING IN

THE EARLY AND ADOPTING

DETECTION

OF CASES AND EFFECTIVE PREVENTIVE MEASURES, HE SAID.

OUR TEACHERS, BOTH AT THE

IN-SERVICE

WITHIN "THE PROBLEM OF CHILD ABUSE IS DEALT

THE TRAINING OF INITIAL TRAINING AND DURING TRAINING" MR LAN SAID, ADDING THAT THE GUIDANCE OFFICERS OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WERE PROVIDED WITH APPROPRIATE TRAINING ON HOW

CASES IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE TO DEAL WITH SUCH

SOCIAL WELFARE

DEPARTMENT AND OTHER AGENCIES.

SCHOOLS WITH

"ADDITIONALLY, THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON THE APPROPRIATE WAYS OF HANDLING INCIDENTS OF CHILD THROUGH THE ISSUE OF INFORMATION LEAFLETS AND PROCEDURAL GUIDES."

ABUSE

"

SOLVED,

THESE DIRECTIONS, Ι "BUT IN SKETCHING THE EFFORTS WE MAKE IN AM FAR FROM WISHING TO SUGGEST THAT WE REGARD THE PROBLEM AS HE SAID.

"ON THE CONTRARY, CONSCIOUS THAT THERE IS

WE. THE EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT ARE

IN

LEARNT TO BE

STILL MUCH PARTICULARLY AS TO WAYS IN WHICH A APPROACH, BY ALL PARTIES CONCERNED, CONTINUED.

CAN

VERY

THIS FIELD, CO-ORDINATED AND EFFECTIVE RE FURTHER DEVELOPED, HE

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