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needs and meeting them as far as practicable to integrate

them into normal social group activities.

It was also necessary

to educate young people and their families to understand and accept

the proper role they should play at home and in society, and to

monitor the effects of personal social work generally. There were

no objective and precise indicators of the most vulnerable period

in youth. An age range of 6 20 was considered appropriate since

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children under 6 years of age were generally living in a protected.

environment (confined to their family environment or placed in

nurseries or kindergartens).

Those over 20 years of age were generally

at a stage of development where they were more mature, emotionally stable

and less receptive to personal social work services.

Nevertheless, this

age range would be applied flexibly in practice.

22.

Those of the recommendations concerning social work among

schoolchildren which were subsequently incorporated in the 1979 White

Paper Social Welfare into the 1980s are summarised below in the comments

on that White Paper.

1977 Green Paper: Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education

23.

The 1977 Green Paper considered the development over the

next decade of the main courses of education for those students who

would continue their studies on a full-time or part-time basis at

levels beyond the nine-year course of general education that, from

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September 1978, would be made available to all.

The courses of

The term "tertiary

education reviewed were mainly those provided in the secondary schools (Forms/Middle IV-VI), the technical institutes, the approved post- secondary colleges, the colleges of education and TTC, the universities

and the Polytechnic, and adult education centres. education" was used to refer to all types of post-school education for

which completion of at least five years of secondary education was normally required: it thus included technician courses in the technical

institutes (but not craft-level courses, which were part of post-Form III provision).