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Development of Rehabilitation Services

Implement the ten-year programme contained in

the 1977 White Paper. This will include: -

(i)

Establishment of a Central Registry for

the Disabled.

(ii) Expanding pre-school care: the less

severely disabled to be integrated in

ordinary child care centres; special

centres for the severely disabled.

(iii) Establishing residential care in the

community for the mentally-ill and

retarded (see appendix E (1) ).

(iv) Expanding sheltered work (see appendix E (1) ).

(v) Better physical access and transport

facilities for the disabled.

(The medical and educational aspects of

rehabilitation are dealt with in sections 2

and 3 and their appendices.)

Social Security and Public Assistance

(i) Maintain and keep under review existing

means-tested and non-means-tested non-

contributory schemes for poor, disabled

and elderly

(appendix E (2)).

(ii) Introduce a contributory scheme of insurance

against sickness, death and retirement on

either a compulsory or voluntary basis

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