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SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, as I said in

my main reply, the Medical and Health Department already

operates a

observation scheme.

Comprehensive

The

information available is also passed on to parents and I

think, Sir, it is the duty of good parents to draw the

schools' entraren's attention to serious problems affecting

their children. As I said in the main reply, I think we

can also encourage more widespread use of the family

particulars form by schools in order to enable parents

themselves to provide as much information to the schools as

possible. We will, of course, Sir, ask the Education

Department to consider issuing some guidelines on this

particular subject.

grogramme initially

conducted

MR. YEUNG : Sir, will Government consider extending the

useful combined screening

screening progra

for all Primary 1 pupils to all Form I students after a

lapse of six years for the benefit of secondary schools

too?

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER : Sir, I think it is

a matter of resources and priority.

The present scheme is

working fine but of course we have not thought it further

and we will certainly examine the suggestion.