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Education
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2,120
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- Enhancing the use of information technology by strengthening teacher training, engaging contract technical services and providing over 100 IT Co-ordinators
- Upgrading a further 1 640 teaching posts in primary schools to graduate status
- Supplementary grant to schools to support school-based management
- Around 170 additional teachers in primary schools to enhance library services and implement Reading Schemes
- Commissioning 15 new secondary schools and operating 31 more primary schools on whole-day basis
- Relaxing the criteria for full grants and meeting increased demand under various financial assistance schemes
- Additional schools joining the Direct Subsidy Scheme
- Over 40 additional Student Guidance Teachers in primary schools
- Providing subject training to 600 in-service teachers in Music and Art
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Health
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1,020
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- 973 additional hospital beds
- For the elderly, 6 integrated elderly health centres, 6 visiting health teams and 40 geriatric day places
- 40 psychiatric day places
- A team of 62 staff to strengthen the control and prevention of infectious diseases
- 30 additional staff for enhancing food safety control and 23 additional staff for improved control of imported and local livestock and poultry
- Enhancing the standard of dispensing service in public clinics
- Enhancing drug safety through increased testing of drugs in circulation
- Additional support for the regulation, practice, use and trading of traditional Chinese medicine
- A new general out-patient clinic and a skin clinic in Cheung Sha Wan
- Shortened waiting times for first attendance at Hospital Authority specialist out-patient clinics
- 1 300 additional cataract surgery operations
- Introducing nuclear medicine to complement other imaging modalities for 1 100 patients
- 139 000 extra attendances at Department of Health's general out-patient clinics
- 20 000 extra annual assessments for diabetic patients
- 30 000 extra radiographic examinations
- 2 070 extra enrolments at elderly health centres
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Social Welfare
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3,470
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- Meeting increases in demand under the various social security schemes, particularly the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance Scheme
- For the elderly, an additional 2 467 residential places, including subvented and bought places, 14 social centres, 2 day care centres, 4 multi-service centres, 4 dedicated support teams, an expanded and upgraded home help service to deliver domiciliary care and meal services and more elderly in residential care to receive Dementia Supplements
- For people with a disability, an additional 240 residential places and 290 day places
- For children, an additional 1 765 day nursery places, 48 integrated child care centre places, 7 occasional child care service units, 7 child custody workers and 16 child protection workers
- An additional 30 pre-school places for children with a disability
- An additional 29 family caseworker units to strengthen family support services and 6 additional medical social workers
- 5 additional probation officers to strengthen services for offenders
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Security
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970
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- 245 additional police officers to strengthen law and order and general policing
- 30 additional staff in Fire Services Department for improving building fire safety and dangerous goods control
- 49 additional ambulance staff to strengthen emergency ambulance service
- 153 additional firemen to enhance fire fighting capabilities and for two new fire stations
- reduced processing time for dangerous goods licence applications
- 2 additional Master's Courts and 2 additional Labour Tribunal Courts together with the operation of night courts in the Labour Tribunal
- 148 additional staff in Immigration Department to reinforce visa control and right of abode processing capabilities
- 79 additional immigration and customs staff to facilitate the extension of operation hours at Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Control Points
- 16 additional staff for providing customs clearance at the River Trade Terminal in Tuen Mun
- 9 additional staff in Correctional Services Department for strengthening rehabilitation services for young offenders
- 6 additional ICAC staff to strengthen capabilities in financial investigation and computer forensics and research
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