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(xiii) the Education Department gradually to

assume responsibility for the planning and

development of prevocational and vocational

training for the disabled and to take over

from the Social Welfare Department the

responsibility of running such centres for

the disabled;

(xiv) supporting services, such as the provision

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of braille textbooks in Chinese and English,

to be improved;

special classes or units to be provided within

special schools for children with multiple

disabilities.

1977 Green Paper: Development of Personal Social Work among Young People in Hong Kong

20.

In July 1977 a programme plan on personal social work among

young people was completed: this covered the five-year period from 1978/79

to 1982/83 and was prepared in close consultation with interested government

departments and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. The main

recommendations of the programme plan were summarised and issued in

November 1977 as a Green Paper covering statements on the need and

objective of personal social work among young people, social work

among schoolchildren, social work among unattached young people, family

life education, ancillary provisions, manpower requirements, monitoring,

evaluation and research, and the implementation of proposals and

coordination of activities.

21.

The Green Paver defined the overall objective of personal social

work among young people as being "to reduce or prevent anti-social or

delinquent behaviour in young people" and stated that meeting this

objective entailed identifying young people at risk, assessing their

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