CONFIDENTIAL #2
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Family Welfare Services
2.8
In 1965 a regionalized family counselling and casework
service was established to provide comprehensive services to
families in need. By 1977, there were four district offices,
nine family service centres and eight casework units operated by
the Social Welfare Department, offering counselling services for
individual family members, referrals to Government and voluntary
agencies for housing, employment, medical care, school placement
and vocational training, assistance in providing day or residential
care for children whose parents were unable to look after them,
and arranging local and overseas adoptions. Many of these services
are also provided by voluntary agencies.
2.9
To ensure that children enrolled in child care centros
are adequately cared for and supervised, the Child Care Centres
Ordinance and Regulations were enacted in 1975 to regulate and
control the activities of these centres and to impose minimum
standards of staff training and qualifications. These requirements
are expected to be fully complied with by June 1979 but the Director
of Social Welfare will be prepared to exercise his discretion in
individual cases where strict adherence would create hardship,
2.10
The Adoption Service of the Social Welfare Department
administers the local- adoption of orphans or children whose parents
are unable or unwilling to maintain them. Overseas adoptions are
mainly dealt with by Caritas and the International Social Service.
The number of adoptions has decreased in recent years due to fewer
babies and children becoming available for adoption.
The
proportion of overseas adoptions has fallen particularly sharply
and was only 4% of total adoption orders in 1977 compared with
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