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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1989

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY

OF THE ON YAN

CHILD

CARE

CENTRE IN FU SIN ESTATE, TAI PO, MR CHUI SAID THAT PARENTS SHOULD MAKE AND MAKE PRIOR ARRANGEMENTS USE OF SERVICES FROM CHILD CARE CENTRES

SAFETY AND RENDERING WHENEVER THEY HAD TO LEAVE THE HOME, ENSURING PROPER CARE.

AT HOME IS RISKY AND MAY "LEAVING YOUNG CHILDREN UNATTENDED

FALL; RESULT IN ACCIDENTS RANGING FROM BURNS OR INJURIES CAUSED BY A OR EVEN TRAGEDIES SUCH AS TAKING MEDICINES BY MISTAKE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR FALLING FROM A HEIGHT," HE SAID.

MR CHUI DEEPLY REGRETTED THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO RECENT TRAGEDIES INVOLVING CHILDREN WHO FELL FROM THEIR HOMES.

HAD

AVOIDED SOME TRAGEDIES IN RECENT YEARS COULD HAVE BASILY BEEN

OF LEAVING CHILDREN BEEN PARENTS

MORE AWARE OF UNATTENDED, HE SAID.

THE DANGER

NOTED TYPES

TURNING TO CHILD CARE SERVICES IN THE TERRITORY, MR CHUI VARIOUS THAT AT PRESENT THERE WERE 293 CHILD CARE CENTRES OF WITH 30,824 PLACEMENTS. OF THESE CENTRES, 161 WERE AIDED AND 35 OTHERS WERE SUBVENTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

HE EXPLAINED THAT THESE CENTRES HAD TO COMPLY WITH CARE CENTRE LEGISLATION IN AND MANNING RATIO.

RELATION

TO FACILITIES,

THE INFRASTRUCTURE

CHILD

"OFFICERS OF

CARE CENTRE AND PAY IN A

CHILD DEPARTMENT'S SOCIAL WELFARE

OPERATION THEIR MONITORING ARE ADVISORY INSPECTORATE REGULAR VISITS SO AS TO ENSURE THAT PROPER SERVICES ARE PROVIDED COMPREHENSIVE MANNER," HE SAID.

"MOREOVER, THE GOVERNMENT INTRODUCED THE 'FEE ASSISTANCE SCHEME

1982 TO

LOW-INCOME FAMILIES HELP FOR

SERVICES' IN PRE-PRIMARY ENROL CHILDREN IN NURSERIES,

"

MR CHUI COMMENDED THE TSUNG TSIN MISSION, HONG KONG, FOR SERVICES IN CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY SERVICES AND CHILD CARE

CHILD CARE CENTRE, TERRITORY. WITH THE OPENING

A WITH

TOTAL OF

OPERATES NOW

MISSION PLACEMENTS.

FOUR DAY

OF THE ON YAN

NURSERIES

ITS

THE

THE

475

YOUNG OFFENDERS TO USE NEW COMPUTERS TO HELP THE BLIND

TRAINING

PROGRAMMES

FOR YOUNG

OFFENDERS

RUN

BY THE

THE

CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAVE RECENTLY BEEN ENHANCED WITH PURCHASE OF FOUR MICRO-COMPUTERS.

THE PURCHASE OF THE

FOUR MICRO-COMPUTERS WAS MADE

POSSIBLE BANK TRUSTEE

WITH A GENEROUS DONATION OF $137,000 FROM THE HONG KONG LIMITED (WILLIE AND SYLVIA STEWART MEMORIAL FUND TO THE DEPARTMENT.

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