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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1989

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MRS LAU SERVICES PROVIDED FOR

SPEAKING IN THE MOTION DEBATE ON WELFARE OF CHILDREN, SAID ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S OBJECTIVES FOR FAMILY WELFARE WAS TO ENSURE THAT SUFFICIENT DAY NURSERY PLACES WERE ALL CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN TWO AND SIX, SHE SAID.

FOR ALL THEIR PARENTS

AND SUBSIDISED DAY CRECHE PLACES WERE TO BE PROVIDED CHILDREN AGED UNDER TWO WHO COULD NOT BE CARED FOR BY DURING THE DAY, SHE ADDED.

ADOPTED RATIO

HAD FOR

SOME

MRS LAU NOTED THAT THE WORKING YEARS BEEN 100 PLACES PER 20,000 GENERAL POPULATION.

THERE 1989,

WERE

28,558 PLACES IN NURSERIES,

BEING PROVIDED BY THE

UP TO APRIL 17,756 BEING AIDED PLACES AND 10,802 PLACES PRIVATE SECTOR.

THE PLACES IN DAY CRECHES WERE A MEAGRE 917, MRS LAU NOTED.

THE CURRENT PLACES EVERY YEAR.

PLAN

ΤΟ WAS

PROVIDE

MRS

1,600 ADDITIONAL

NURSERY

INCREASING

DEMANDS FOR DAY INCREASING NUMBER OF

LAU SAID

BEEN THERE HAD NURSERIES AND CRECHES IN RECENT YEARS AS AN WORKING WIVES JOINED THE LABOUR FORCE.

STAND THE ADMINISTRATION'S "HOWEVER, RELUCTANCE TO IMPROVE BEYOND CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS,

BEEN HAS

it SHE SAID.

ONE OF

NOT BEEN MRS LAU POINTED OUT THAT THERE WAS A DEMAND THAT HAD

FAILED TO DO ANYTHING TO MET IN THE PAST YEARS BUT THE GOVERNMENT

OUT

TO INVEST GATE AND CARRY

A REVIEW

ASSESS THE POSITION TO SEE PROPOSALS WHETHER THERE WAS ACTUALLY A SHORTFALL AND TO COME UP WITH TO CATER FOR THE DEMAND.

PAST YEARS WITH VARIOUS TRAGIC ACCIDENTS OCCURRING DURING THE

LAU SUGGESTED INVOLVING CHILDREN BEING LEFT UNATTENDED AT HOME, MRS

WAS A SHORTFALL IN DAY TO SHOW THERE THAT THESE FORMED EVIDENCE NURSERIES AND CRECHES.

ALL RETURN THAT CHILD CARE

** IF OUR CURRENT CHILD CARE SERVICES ARE ADEQUATE, WHY ARE THESE ACCIDENTS HAPPENING? HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO

ADMINISTRATION TO CHINA BEFORE THE CENTRES ARE INSUFFICIENT?

"HOW

MANY

MORE CHILD-MINDERS

WOULD CONCEDE

WILL

HAVE

ΤΟ

COURT FOR ABUSING CHILDREN BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION

OVER FORM OF CONTROL IT NECESSARY TO IMPOSE SOME CHILDREN ON A COMMERCIAL BASIS?

BE BROUGHT TO WOULD CONSIDER THOSE WHO MIND

ΤΟ FALL OUT OF BUILDINGS "HOW MANY MORE CHILDREN WILL HAVE

IT TIMELY TO REVIEW THE BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD CONSIDER WHOLE STRUCTURE OF OUR CHILD CARE SERVICES?" SHE ASKED.

WORKING AS

SERVICES

MRS LAU SAID IT WAS UNDESIRABLE AND UNREALISTIC TO FIX RATIOS AND PLANS IN RELATION TO THE PROVISIONS OF SOCIAL THE DEMANDS OF THE SOCIETY CHANGED CONSTANTLY.

/SHE SAID

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