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Services to the handciapped

The proposals for services to the

handicapped were published in a green paper on

13th October last and the process of debate and

consultation that followed it has now been completed

and a definitive White Paper will be published

this month setting out a 5-year development

programme.

Since this work is of a highly specialised

nature, will be carried out not by one but several

departments, and has a large measure of voluntary

agency participation, special measures will be taken

to co-ordinate and drive it forward, by means

of a committee chaired by the Hon. Dr. Harry Fang. The main lines of the proposals are already known

to you, but as, a broad indication of the scale,

enveongel

of action provided for in the White Paper over the

next 5 years: the staff engaged in the many

disciplines of rehabilitation and care of the

handicapped will be more than doubled, capital

works of the order of $86 M will be undertaken, and

recurrent expenditure should rise from $122M in 1977/78

to $197M in 1982/83, that is to say an addition

of $327M over the 5-year period.