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(ii) At a more basic level, the government had
stepped up its efforts in improving public
housing, education and medical and health
facilities for the community. The White
Paner on Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education
would provide greater opportunities for education
at the senior secondary and tertiary levels.
(iii) The government was conscious that those developments,
whilst benefiting the majority of young people, must
be supplemented by more intensive personal guidance
and help for a minority group whose individual needs
and problems could not be met by the basic community
services and who were not attracted to organized
activities. Personal social work among young
people was designed particularly to help those
aged between 6 20, with the overall objective of
reducing and preventing anti-social and delinquent
behaviour. To this end, it was proposed to develop
those services which would reach young people at
school, in their homes and in society at large to
improve understanding between them and their families
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and to inculcate a sense of responsibility and moral
values.
(iv) With the introduction of nine years of free and
compulsory education for all, our schools should
reach all young people during the most formative
years of their lives. The school therefore provided
a good base for extending personal guidance and help
to those young people who required such services.
The Government intended to expand School Social
Work ta saver all schools but this expansion would
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