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For children generally :

an extra 1400 day nursery places

447 day creche places

175 residential home places

9 small group homes

75 occasional child care places and

40 foster care places;

For vulnerable children:

an extra 32 social workers for the child protection and custody services;

For youths at school:

22 extra school social workers;

To strengthen family support:

an extra 68 family caseworkers

11 clinical psychologists and 12 home help teams;

A new counselling centre for psychotropic substance abusers

A comprehensive package of improvements to the comprehensive social security assistance scheme

On health, the Government recurrent spending will grow to $22.6 billion.

New facilities will include:

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830 additional hospital beds

8 new patients and carers resources centres

3 new general out-patients clinics

3 new elderly health centres

2 new maternal and child health centres