Section of the Social Welfare Office in co-operation with the Grantham Teachers'
Teachers' Training College. This course was initiated by the Standing Conference of Youth Organizations in 1951 and representatives of member-organizations of the Con- ference continue to give of their time generously and voluntarily to lecturing, and to place their organizations' facilities at the students' disposal for practical training.
13. During the period under review, Mrs. R. Ko of the Special Welfare Services Section of the Social Welfare Office returned from the United Kingdom after a six months' course in Blind Welfare, organized by the British Empire Society for the Blind. Mr. Patrick Wong of the Community Development Section spent four months in the United Kingdom, training in community development work and civil defence under the auspices of a British Council Scholarship. An almoner of the Medical Department left for the United Kingdom in December for a course of further training in medical social work.
14. An evening course on "Mental Health and Education in Hong Kong" was organized by Hong Kong University and was attended by thirty-two officers from the various sections of the Social Welfare Office.
15. Apart from the courses mentioned above, all training in social work was carried out on the spot by Government departments and voluntary organizations for their own employees.
CHAPTER IV
INFANT WELFARE
16. As in previous years, the Society for the Protection of Children continues to be the best known voluntary organization to interest itself in the welfare of infants. This society devotes nearly all its funds, staff, and time to maternity and infant welfare work, and supplements in a very effective manner the services being rendered to the public by the greatly over- burdened Infant Welfare section of the Medical Department.
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