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MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1987

COMMENTING ON THE GENERAL ACCEPTANCE THAT THE PROBLEM OF CHILD IT HAD BEEN RECOGNISED ABUSE EXISTED IN EVERY SOCIETY, MR LAN SAID

PROBLEM OF CHILD ABUSE MUST BE THAT AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY IN CHARACTER.

INTO

ACCOUNT ALL AND SOCIAL,

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"THUS THE RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM MUST TAKE ITS ASPECTS: MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, LEGAL, EDUCATIONAL HE SAID,

EARLIER, CHAIRMAN OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE REMARKS THAT THE CONFERENCE, MR THOMAS MULVEY SAID IN HIS WELCOMING FIVE-DAY CONFERENCE AIMED TO ENABLE PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS PROFESSIONS TO BENEFIT FROM THE SHARING OF EACH OTHER'S CONCERN AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CHILD ABUSE PROBLEM, AS WELL AS FROM THE WIDE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE OVERSEAS SPEAKERS.

WHILE HEARTENED BY THE GOOD RESPONSE FROM THE HE SAW THE NEED FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.

PROFESSIONALS

WE "DESPITE THE FOCUS OF THIS CONFERENCE,

MUST REMEMBER THAT A PROFESSIONAL ISSUE, NOR ONLY THIS IS NOT MERELY

AN ISSUE FOR FAMILIES, IT INVOLVES A COMMUNITY RESPONSE.

"FORTUNATELY, THERE ARE RECOGNISED," HE SAID.

POSITIVE SIGNS

THAT THIS IS BRING

HE THANKED LADY WILSON FOR HER ENCOURAGING EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR THE GRANT OF $145,300 FROM FUND AND THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND

COMPANIES, AS

SUPPORT

AND

THE LOTTERIES VARIOUS

GIVEN BY THE

WELL AS THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND VOLUNTARY AGENCIES IN ORGANISING THE CONFERENCE.

POTENTIALLY

MOST

"WE HOPE THAT IT MAY STIMULATE FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR

IN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CO-OPERATION

TACKLING THIS TRAGIC PROBLEM OF ABUSE, HE SAID.

GOOD RESPONSE TO SEMINARS ON HARMONISED SYSTEM

AND

THE

RESPONSE TO THE FOURTEEN SEMINARS ORGANISED BY THE CENSUS STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON THE NEW COMMODITY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM, HONG KONG HARMONISED COMMODITY DESCRIPTION AND CODING SYSTEM (HK HS), HAS BEEN VERY ENCOURAGING, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY

(MONDAY).

"THE DEPARTMENT HAS RECEIVED SOME 20,000 APPLICATIONS FOR TAKING PART IN THE SEMINARS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD FROM NOVEMBER 27 TO DECEMBER 29. ADMISSION TO THE SEMINARS IS FREE.

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