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With this fundamental change in the basic financing of
social welfare services operated by the voluntary sector, and the
scale of developments envisaged in the coming decade, the Government
accepts that the present method of subventing social welfare services
through discretionary grants for specified services, is no longer
appropriate in all areas of service. For example, where the Government
sees an important role for the voluntary sector in a key area of
service, an assurance of adequate financial support is essential if
a service of the required standard is to be provided. It is also
important that there should be some means of ensuring that the
increasing public funds being devoted to welfare services are well
spent. Both the Government and the Hong Kong Council of Social
Service have been giving urgent attention to this matter and it is
hoped that consultations on proposed changes can reach fruition during
1979.
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Relationship between Social Security and Social Welfare Services
Improvements in the range and level of social security
payments do not necessarily imply that direct social welfare services
should be correspondingly reduced. There is no inherent overlap
between the two, since social security provides financial help for
those who are unable to be fully self-supporting, whereas social
welfare scrvices are for those who have a need for such service.
Family counselling and community centres illustrate the general validity
of this statement. In the first case, what is needed is advice and
assistance in resolving family problems, not money. In the second
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community centres provide a service which, generally speaking,
cannot be purchased commercially, so that a cash allowance would not
provide an adequate substituto.
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