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social services, in terms of quality and quantity, cannot cope with the actual demand. Close attention should, therefore, be paid to the demand of social services in
the new towns and early measures be taken to improve
the situation. Also, with urbanisation and the forming
of a metropolitan society, specific groups of people, such as those coming from single-parent families, teenage girls who run away from home frequently and young married
women found helpless after moving to the new towns, are
in need of special care and attention. If assistance is to be extended to them, the authorities concerned
should consider developing some specifically-designed services to meet the needs of these target groups. These
services should be taken into consideration when conducting
the bi-annual review of the social services development plan.
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Lastly, Sir, on the funding for welfare service agencies;
apart from the annual allocation by the Government, 19 charitable donations from members of the public and
organisations are at present a major source of the funds 21 required. However, according to the existing legislation,
organisations that donate part of their profits towards charitable purposes can only enjoy a tax-deductible tax-deduxtable 24 allowance of not more than 10 per cent of their total
Such provision dișcourages local organisations from making more donations to use on social services.
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In my opinion, as long as members of the public and local organisations are willing to contribute, the Government should show encouragement by raising the tax-deductible tax-deduta lis
allowance for charitable donations. It is understandable
that by doing so, the annual yield to public revenue would
be slightly affected. However, we must realise that should
there be a lack of such donations or the amount of
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donations falls short of the cost of service provision
because of the meek allowance rate, the Government
eventually has to use more public money to fund the
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