the Youth Welfare Section
(including youth activities, community centres and com-
munity organization); and
the Training Unit
(in-service training and staff development)
8 The Department is fully conscious of the inter-dependence of qualified staff, social research and welfare services, and in addition to providing direct services tries to offer leadership in the development of additional or more intensive training opportunities, and encourages fact- finding and evaluative research; it throws open its training resources to voluntary agencies and other departments (many of which regularly enrol staff members in in-service training courses) and undertakes when practicable special training assignments such as the courses for family planning workers given at the request of the Family Planning Associa- tion during the past year. Under the section heads there serve both professional staff and specialist employees. Secretarial, clerical, account- ing, office, maintenance and domestic service staff complete the estab- lishment, for which the secretary of the department is largely responsible. A summary of the senior staff and of the establishment is given by schedules of responsibility and by categories at Appendices 3 and 4. The offices, institutions and units in which they work are separately charted in Appendix 5. As will be seen, they are scattered all over Hong Kong.
9 Total expenditure during the year on social welfare within the Department's purview was, in round figures, fifteen million dollars (plus), of which subventions to fifty-five voluntary agencies accounted for nearly six millions, direct welfare work for nearly two and a half millions, and salaries and administrative expenses for the remainder. Appendix 6 gives the figures in detail and compares expenditure with that in previous years and with the amount voted by the legislature for the next financial year.
CHAPTER II
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
Living movements do not come of committees.
NEWMAN
10 A Mr Ken JONES, the warden of a Community Centre in England, was quoted round the world's press a few months ago as saying that 'there is an old idea that leisure is something the rich have
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