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SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1990

MR FUNG APPEALED TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE TO PUT INTO PRACTICE THEY HAD LEARNED ABOUT CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY.

WHAT

MORE THAN

100 YOUNGSTERS

THE CHINESE

CIVIC

SEMINAR, TODAY'S INCLUDED TALKS ON CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND YOUNGSTERS IN THE

OF HONG KONG, MR COMMITTEE.

MR MEMBER,

ATTENDED

WHICH 90'S BY

A

OF LECTURER WING-KWONG, AND BY A KAI-NAM.

THE OTHER REGIONAL PROGRAMMES, COVERING PEOPLE'S ROLES IN MEETING NEW CHALLENGES AND THE WORK WILL BE HELD IN AUGUST AND OCTOBER THIS YEAR.

OF VOLUNTEERS,

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

TSANG

CHENG

THE

TOPICS OF

YOUNG

LONGER NURSERY OPENING HOURS BEING CONSIDERED

* *

THE POSSIBILITY TO COPE WITH THE SOCIAL WELFARE,

OF EXTENDING THE OPENING HOURS OF NEEDS OF PARENTS, THE ACTING ASSISTANT MR CARLOS LEUNG, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY).

THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT IS LOOKING INTO

DAY

NURSERIES DIRECTOR

OF

OF

THE ALICE LAN TIN, MR LEUNG HAD AN IMPORTANT

SPEAKING AT THE FOURTH GRADUATION CEREMONY AND VERA SHEN EDUCATION FUND DELIA PEI NURSERY IN SHA POINTED OUT THAT CHILDREN'S PRE-SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT EFFECT ON THEIR FUTURE PROGRESS.

"THAT IS WHY

THE

DEPARTMENT

AND

ORGANISATIONS

ENGAGED IN

CHILD CARE SERVICES HAVE BEEN WORKING SERVICE FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION,

HARD IN PROMOTING PRE-SCHOOL HE SAID.

FOR CHILDREN SUBVENTED DAY TO 6 PM

AT PRESENT THERE IS A TOTAL OF 18,937 PLACEMENTS

REGISTERED 173 THE EXISTING TWO

AT TO SIX AGED NURSERIES TERRITORY-WIDE. THEIR OPENING HOURS ARE FROM 8 AM DAILY.

MR LEUNG SAID HE HOPED THESE NURSERIES COULD BE IN COPING WITH THE PARENTS' NEEDS.

MORE FLEXIBLE

RESPECT, "IN THIS

WE

NURSERIES TO LOOK INTO THE

ARE POSSIBILITY

NOW

WORKING

WITH OF EXTENDING

THE

SUBVENTED

THEIR

OPENING

HOURS, HE ADDED.

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