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centre assistants, personal care workers, home helpers
sheltered
and shelter workshop assistants, are providing direct
helter
services to the public, often looking after their
emotional and psychological needs.
the
It is believed that
the nature of the work and the amount of responsibilities
proper warr carried by welfare workers would warrant, pre-service training, that is still non-existent in Hong Kong. Furthermore, with/increasing incidence of personal and social problems in our community, comes an expansion in the range and complexity of social workers' responsibilities
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Recent tragedies of homicides, battered spouses and mental patients emphasised the need for qualified social workers to have in-depth knowledge of social work practice in addition to the generic training they received
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In the past few years, financial strain has restricted the expansion and improvement of social welfare services, let alone the development of in-service training for social workers. Under the existing subvention system, there is no provision in voluntary agencies' central administration costs for staff training. Staff development courses organised for agency staff come under the auspices of the
Lotteries Fund
Fund/ which is granted to about 50 per cent of
applications and provides only 60 per cent of the funds required by the successful projects. Voluntary agencies' main concern, however, focuses on a handful of applicants who are given replacement grants and subsidies by the Social Work Training Fund for acquiring advanced training locally and abroad. The sponsorship of education officers to
attend special education courses gation of labour officers of the
overseas, and the dele-
Selective inaudible? Placement Unit
to take up advanced studies abroad attest to the importance of specialised training for serving officers. Yet no such effort has been made to equip our social workers to deal with new responsibilities arising from the implementation
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