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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1993

THEY SHE SAID THESE ORGANISATIONS WERE FREE TO SELECT WHOEVER

THOUGH THE GOVERNMENT WOULD CONSIDERED THE BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB

ΤΟ PRIORITY LIKE TO SEE

SUITABLY

LOCAL CANDIDATES WHERE AVAILABLE.

THESE

BODIES

GIVING

QUALIFIED

"I UNDERSTAND THAT MANY OF THESE ORGANISATIONS NOW FOLLOW A POLICY THEMSELVES," SHE ADDED.

SUCH

CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES UNIT STRENGTHENED

THE SOCIAL

DEPARTMENT HAS STRENGTHENED WELFARE PROTECTIVE SERVICES UNIT WHICH HANDLES CHILD ABUSE CASES BY MORE EXPERIENCED SOCIAL WORKERS TO IT, THE SECRETARY FOR WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG, SAID.

THE

CHILD DEPLOYING HEALTH AND

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM SHING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), MRS WONG SAID

OF

TO THE

EIGHT UNIT HAD BEEN INCREASED ESTABLISHMENT CASEWORKERS SINCE JANUARY 1991.

FROM

KUI-

THE

NINĖ

THE

THE RANKING OF THE CASEWORKERS HAS ALSO BEEN UPGRADED FROM ASSISTANT SOCIAL WORK OFFICER RANK TO THE SOCIAL WORK OFFICER RANK, IN THE NEED VIEW OF THE INCREASING COMPLEXITY OF THE CASES HANDLED AND FOR OUTREACHING INVESTIGATION DUTIES.

"AT

PRESENT, THE AVERAGE CASELOAD OF A CASEWORKER IN THE

UNIT

IS 39.

CASE,

RATIO OF AND IS

ABUSE

"THIS CASELOAD IS IN LINE WITH THE APPROVED MANNING

TO 40 CHILD PROTECTIVE ONE CHILD

CASEWORKER CONSIDERED REASONABLE," MRS WONG SAID.

HOWEVER, SHE STRESSED THAT THE DEPARTMENT WOULD MONITOR THE CASELOAD OF THE CASEWORKERS.

0

CONTRACT FOR STRATEGIC LANDFILL PROJECTS

CONTINUE TO

THE CHINESE SIDE ARE BEING CONSULTED ON THE CONTRACTS FOR STRATEGIC LANDFILL PROJECTS WHICH WOULD GO BEYOND JUNE 30, 1997.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT LANDS, MR TONY EASON, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON YIU-CHUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

/MR EASON

THE

AND

TAM