5. Total Government expenditure on social welfare, including Departmental costs, direct welfare services, subventions and allocations from the Lotteries Fund totalled $42,915,323.00, an increase of 27% over the previous year.
CHAPTER II
TRAINING
6. The development of effective social welfare services depends largely on the employment by Government and voluntary welfare agencies of qualified and trained workers. While professional social work training at the academic level is available in both local and overseas universities, the role of the Training Section of the Depart- ment is, first, to organize in-service training programmes for persons who are academically untrained but already employed in social welfare work; second, to provide opportunities for trained social workers to further their knowledge, skill and interest in their profes- sion, through the provision of carefully planned refresher courses; and third, to advise on and implement measures which facilitate staff development, fieldwork placement and pre-service training.
7. The opening of the Lady Trench Day Nursery and Training Centre in July 1970 marked an important step forward in the develop- ment of social work training in Hong Kong. The Centre is designed to assist with the training of workers engaged in a variety of social welfare services. The planning and construction of the Centre which took three years to complete was made possible by a generous dona- tion of $800,000 from Sir Shiu-kin TANG and a special grant of $1,250,000 from the Lotteries Fund. The 5-storey Centre now accom- modates the Training Section of the Department, a model day nursery with a capacity for approximately 100 pre-school aged children, a multi-purpose hall and gymnasium with a seating capacity for 600, a library and classroom facilities for the Department's various training programmes.
THE UNIVERSITIES
8. For the academic year 1970-71, the total enrolment of social work students at the two universities was 109. These comprised 8 for the 15-month Diploma course and 45 for the Degree course in
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