TNAG-1139-FCO40-1419-Quarterly-progress-reports-on-Hong-Kong-1982 — Page 305

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Subject

26.F ew of

staff

Purpose

To review staff

structures in voluntary structures in agencies with a view to

voluntary Egencies

Providing

determining the extent to which the Welfare Class Review of the Social Welfare.

Department may be applied

7-

Progress made and present position

Next quarter tärgët

Stage II of the Review - inspection of To monitor progress. posts in voluntary agencies has been completed and reports/recommendations have been considered by the Steering Committee. Practical implications of the Review are being studied.

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Pocial

Velfare

Fervices

REHABILITATION

27.Vocational

Training for the Disabled

་ ་ ་

To transfer responsibility (a) In August 1980 the Education

from the Director of

Social Welfare (DSW) to

the Director of

Education (1) of E)

Department took over from the Social Welfare Department the World Rehabilitation Fund Day Centre for the provision of vocational training. Two additional floors were completed in December 1981 to provide an additional 84 training places for the disabled and the establishment of a Vocational Assessment Centre. The 107 trainees undergoing vocational training at the nearby Kai Nang Training Centre operated by the Social Welfare Department will all be absorbed by the World Rehabilitation Fund Day Centre before April 1982. The first batch of equipment for the Vocational Assessment Centre will arrive in February enabling full assessment programmes to begin.

(b) Two of the three school premises

in public housing estates offered by D of E to accommodate services to be transferred out of the World Rehabilitation Fund Day Centre have been accepted by the Social Welfare Department.

To monitor progress

Action completed.

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