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3.The arms of government receiving the most complaints were: Housing Department, Correctional Services Department, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Government Secretariat, Lands Department, Education Department, Social Welfare Department, Immigration Department, Transport Department, and the Hospital Authority.
4.The Social Welfare Department (SWD) maintains a close working partnership with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which, with subventions provided by the Government, are the main providers of social welfare services.
5.In November 1996, a Witness Support Programme using trained non-government volunteers or family aides of the Social Welfare Department was launched.
6.A joint working group between the Education Department and the Social Welfare Department has completed its deliberations on the further harmonisation of kindergartens and child care centres. The public will be consulted in 2002.
7.The idea of adoption was appealing, but we were somewhat put off①by the totality of the rupture between birth mother and child imposed by the state welfare department.
8.Members of the public can make appointments to see volunteer lawyers through one of the 120 referral agencies, which include all District Offices, Caritas Services Centres and the Social Welfare Department.
9.Non-emergency ambulance services were transferred to the Hospital Authority in October 1995, and in April 1997 the Auxiliary Medical Service took over the non-emergency ambulance service originating from private hospitals, the Social Welfare Department and Department of Health for the whole territory.
10.The Young Offender Assessment Panel, comprising staff from CSD and the Social Welfare Department, was established in 1987 to provide magistrates with recommendations on the most appropriate programmes of rehabilitation for young offenders between the ages of 14 and 25.
