following subjects:- The Problem of the Blind in Hong Kong, Child Care, Moral Welfare, and Relief (with especial reference to emergency relief measures.) Terms of Reference and mem- bership of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee on 31st March 1954 will be found at Appendix 11.
81. Mention has already been made in this report of the co-ordination of activities undertaken by the Standing Con- ference of Youth Organizations, and of the work of the Port Welfare Committee. Co-ordination among the Kaifong Associations was achieved by consultation among the interested Kaifong members, and with the Social Welfare Office.
82. One of the objects of the unofficial Hong Kong Council of Social Service was the co-ordination of the activities of its affiliated members; this had been successfully achieved by its predecessor when dealing with mass relief work in 1938-41, and to some extent in similar activities from late 1945-1947. But as the need for this type of relief work became less pressing in comparison with many other social activities, the effectiveness of the Council of Social Service as a co-ordinating body apparently became reduced. One reason for this was the tendency of voluntary bodies affiliated to it to concentrate on their own affairs, and to view with particular alarm anything which might affect their own appeals to the public for financial support.
83. In the summer of 1947 informal gatherings of volun- tary and official social workers were organized by Miss Scott- Morcrieff, at that time Secretary of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Two years later there emerged from these meetings a regularly constituted Hong Kong Social Workers Association, which set out to achieve greater practical co-opera- tion in all fields through personal contacts between all its members. This association also arranged talks and discussions on matters of professional interest to its members.
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K. KEEN,
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