TNAG-0740-FCO40-944-Quarterly-progress-reports-from-Hong-Kong-1978 — Page 43

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Subject

27. Workmen's

Compensation Repair and

Renewal of

Prostheses and Surgical

Appliances

Purpose

Progress made and present position

To ensure that the repair and A stop-gap administrative arrangement whereby

renewal of prostheses and

surgical appliances is

provided at no cost to injured workmen.

charitable funds are pooled to finance the repair and renewal of prostheses and surgical appliances for injured workers was introduced on 18th September. (Proposed legislation conceming employers' liability has been considered by the Inter-departmental Working Party on Workmen's Compensation and a recommendation will be made in its report.)

Next quarter targets

Action completed.

SOCIAL WELFARE

28. Review of

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Functions and Organisation of the Social

Welf re

Department

To implement proposals for the regionalisation of the Social Welfare Department.

Review of Welfare To process the Class

30. Child Care

Centres Ordinance and Regulations

recommendations of the working party set up to review the structure of the departmental grades and to assess their policy implications.

To review and relax where necessary the standards laid down by this legislation and to ensure that the number of child care places is not adversely affected by the implementation of this legislation.

Finance Committee approved the creation of the necessary posts on 16th August. Four Reginal Officers have been appointed and the ro-organisation is expected to be completed by April 1979.

The Civil Service Branch in consultation with the Social Servicos Branch and the Social Welfare Department has dram up a revised "package" which was put to the staff concerned. Both the Assistant Social Welf re Officers and the Welfare Assistants were dissatisfied and took industrial action. In the light of further discussions with the staff, various modifications were suggested. Dialogue is continuing with the staff associations.

The

Drafting instructions being processed. proposal to modify the academic qualifications for a child care worker has met with strong opposition from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and other professional bodies.

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To monitor progress of regionalisation.

To seck an carly settlement of the

disputes and to liaise with the resourco branches in processing the final propos`ls.

To consider the implications of the proposed legislative amendments and to decide whether drafting approval should be given for all the amendments.

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