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SOCIAL WELFARE

cases referred for welfare assistance of some kind. The Correctional Service operates four institutions. Three of these institutions are for juveniles, of which one is a reformatory school for 150 boys at Castle Peak, the second a combined Remand Home and Probation Home in Kowloon for 60 and 100 boys respectively, and the third another combined Home also in Kowloon for 45 girls. The fourth institution is a probation hostel at Kwun Tong for young men between the ages of 16 and 21 years ordered to stay there as a condition of their Probation Order. These young men go to work daily and pay for their upkeep at the hostel from their salaries. A new reformatory school for 150 male juveniles is under construction and is expected to_open early next year. Voluntary agencies which take a leading part in helping to prevent the spread of juvenile delinquency are the Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre and the Society of Boys' Centres, which give residential training to those who need help in finding a place in society or in overcoming difficulties of behaviour and relationship.

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TRAINING AND RESEARCH

A total of 51 students completed courses in social work-at the two universities during the year. In the 1967-8 academic year, the University of Hong Kong created a new Faculty of Social Science and dispensed with the two-year certificate course. In its place, there is a three-year Honours Course leading to a degree in Bachelor of Social Science. The post-graduate one-year diploma course in Social Science has, however, been retained. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Scholarships have been granted to eight students for both universities and 52 have been awarded bursaries, of which 47 were from Government. The Social Work Training Fund has granted $155,375 for local or overseas training for seven people.

The Advisory Committee on Social Work Training, which is responsible for the promotion and co-ordination of the training of social workers, runs a course for experienced senior social workers in conjunction with the Extra-mural Departments of the two universities. The Social Welfare Department is represented in an advisory capacity on five other committees connected with the training of welfare workers. A delegation of twelve persons, con- sisting of representatives from government, voluntary welfare