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been increased by $810,000 which is far below the
amount required for improving the camps and hostels services.e
Sir, in an increasingly advanced and developed society like Hong Kong, I really feel that improving the quality of and increasing the provision of social services are of equal importance. [with the proposed expansion of various social services next year, we may experience a shortage of social workers. In fact, there has been a great fluctuation in the supply of social workers over the past few years: Periodic sur-
plus may be followed by shortages. As a result, it is difficult to formulate long-term planning on social services. I really hope that the authorities concerned would will give full consideration to this situation.
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Secondly, on planning the provision of social services, the Government has always taken the population of a
district as an indicator in the provision of some of
the social services like youth centres and elderly
and so on. centres etc. However, with the rapid development of
new towns over the past few years, we have seen major changes in our demographic distribution. I hope the Government will make a thorough study of the impact of the change in population distribution on the provision of our existing social services. The authority concerned
should adopt a more flexible approach in planning for
the provision of additional social services and make the necessary arrangement; in line with the demographic structure of each district. While the planning of youth 32 centres has been given a degree of flexibility, the
planning of other services like elderly centres and
34 child care centres is not flexible enough. This affects
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the provision of the services concerned.
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owing to the rapid development of new towns, many planned
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