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Calendar cards to promote child care

The Social Welfare Department has produced 150,000 copies of a calendar card for the year 1996 to further publicise the message of home safety.

The calendar cards, which convey a message appealing to members of the public to make full use of the occasional child care service, are now being distributed free at all service units of the department, all child care centres and all maternal and child health centres of the Department of Health.

"Children should under no circumstances be left alone at home, even for a short while," a spokesman for the department said today (Sunday).

"At present, there are 149 child care centres providing a total of 453 occasional child care places to help needy parents to temporarily look after their children," he said.

The child care centres offer temporary care for children aged under six on a two-hour, half-day or whole-day basis. The fee for a two-hour session is $14.

Members of the public who wish to use the service may contact the Social Welfare Department hotline 2343 2255 or the Child Care Centre Advisory Inspectorate on 2835 2725.

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Fresh water cut in Sai Kung

Fresh water supply to some premises in Sai Kung will be temporarily suspended from 11 pm on Wednesday (December 13) to 6 am the following day to facilitate watermain works.

Affected area will include Sai Sha Road between Wong Chuk Wan and Cheung Muk Tau.

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