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Expansion of Services to the elderly
120. The Government's mein objective in plans for the elderly is
to encourage familios themselves to continue to cure for their older
members. I have already refurred to two social security measures which
will in cash terms assist this objective. The Green Paper will include
proposals to meet the medical and housing needs of the elderly, the
expansion of home help, the construction of centres to provide social
work services for the elderly, and the expansion of institutional care,
and of care and attention facilities.
Expension of Personal Services for youth
121.
I have already referred to the rapid expansion of recreational
and cultural activities for the population as a whole, and particularly
for young people. These are highly beneficial and desirable in them-
selves, and I do not think it is coincidental that since the expansion
of these services there has been a considerable drop in the level of
juvenile crime. However there exists a small mirority who are vulnerable
to delinquent influences, and who are not attracted to organised activities.
These people require direct personal guidance and help if they are not to
drift into the criminal world. The new proposals provide for comprehensive
school social work cervices, cautious expansion of out-reaching social
work in areas known to have a higher incidence of delinquency, and
intensive efforts in family life education.
Measures of this sort have
been strongly advocated within this Council and by social workers
outside it.
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122.
If the various proposals in the White Paper and three Green
Papers commend themselves to the public and Honourable Members, they
will be phased in over the next 5 years with the main impact achieved
/before the
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