CHAPTER III
FAMILY SERVICES DIVISION
17. The Family Services Division consists of a decentralized net- work of casework offices and supporting specialist services which are centrally administered. Together they are capable of dealing with a wide variety of social problems affecting both individuals and families. They have been so organized that a person or a family with a multitude of social problems need normally approach only one casework office to obtain the assistance and advice they require.
CASEWORK SERVICES
18. Casework services provided by the Division include the following:
(a) counselling on problems involving family relationships; (b) referrals to appropriate Government Departments and welfare agencies for the purposes of obtaining special assistance; advice on employment; resettlement accommodation; hawker licences; free or subsidized schooling for children; nursery care and institutional care;
(c) services designed to rehabilitate the physically handicapped and
the mentally disabled;
(d) the protection of children and young persons in need of care; (e) investigations into applications for workmen's compensation and
to obtain benefits from certain trust funds.
WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN
19. Residential and day care services in nurseries, creches and play centres provide for the care of children where this is not ade- quately available otherwise. These continue to be in great demand because there are a considerable number of mothers who have to work to supplement family incomes and who are therefore unable to devote sufficient care and attention to their children at a vital period of their growth and development. (See Appendix 16).
20. During the year under review more than 12,300 places were available for children in some 72 non-profit-making nurseries and
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