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Question No. 10

Division

Training for officers in the selective Placement tsun

Written Reply by the

Secretary for Education and Manpower

zo Question by the Hon. HUI Yin-fat

in the Legislative Council on 10 February 1988 10. MR. HUI asked:

Question No. 10:

Will Government inform this Council what kind of training is being provided for officers in the Selective Placement Division of the Labour Department, and what the average length of stay is for officers posted to this division?

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Answer wer

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:

Sir,

The Labour Department provides in-service training

courses of two weeks duration on a regular basis for officers

handling placement of disabled persons. These courses aim to

provide officers with a basic understanding of disability and

knowledge of counselling and placement techniques. Visits to

organisations providing services to disabled persons are

arranged. Officers also attend training courses on sign

language organised by the Society for the Deaf. Since the

Labour Department took over the responsibility for placement

of disabled persons in 1980, 90 officers have attended these

local courses which have proved very useful.

Nineteen

in

19, officers have also attended training courses

the United States, Canada,

counselling, assessment and

These training courses

courses ranged

t he United Kingdom, Germany,

Australia and New Zealand on

placement of disabled persons.

from two weeks to 10 months, the majority being between four

and eight weeks.

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