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$ million
(at 1997-1998 prices) |
Education
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2,340
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- 1 380 additional graduate teacher posts for primary schools
- 21 more primary schools operating on a whole-day basis
- Extra support for schools using Chinese as the medium of instruction
- Additional native-speaking English teachers in secondary schools
- Enhancing the use of information technology in school education
- More training places for teachers in schools and kindergartens
- Language benchmarking for teachers
- Supporting the implementation of school-based management
- Additional clerical support for primary and secondary schools
- Increased school places and support services for newly arrived children
- Implementing the recommendations of the Board of Education for special education
- Providing travel subsidy to primary pupils below the age of 12
- Extending the Textbook Assistance Scheme to Secondary 4 to 7 students
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Health
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1,360
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- 754 additional hospital beds
- For the elderly, 12 integrated elderly health centres, 12 visiting health teams,
40 geriatric day places, an additional psychogeriatric team and community geriatric
assessment team
- Establishment of a regulatory framework to regulate the practice, use and trading
of traditional Chinese medicine and the registration of practitioners
- A Kowloon Bay Primary Health Care Centre with an integrated day treatment centre
for sexually transmitted and skin diseases and HIV infection, a general out-patient
clinic and a radiography centre
- A new Child Assessment Centre in Central Kowloon
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Social Welfare
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2,800
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- For the elderly, an additional 2 621 residential places, 12 social centres, 3 day
care centres, 4 multi-service centres, 20 home help teams, 2 carers' support and
resource centres, 35 dedicated teams for outreaching and to support volunteers
programmes, a blister programme to train pupil nurses to serve elderly homes, additional
staffing in day care centres and elderly homes and the introduction of a new Dementia
Supplement for subvented residential care homes
- Increase in the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance standard monthly payment
for the elderly by $380 (after subsuming the annual Chinese New Year and Social and
Recreation Activities grants)
- For people with a disability, an additional 180 residential places and 250 day places
- For children, an additional 3 266 day nursery places, 12 day cr
 che places and 30
residential home places
- An additional 288 pre-school places for children with a disability
- An additional 26 family caseworker units to strengthen family support services and
12 additional medical social workers
- 14 more school social workers, 1 outreaching social work team, 2 children and youth
centres and 2 teams under the community support service scheme
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Security
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770
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- 339 additional police officers to strengthen law and order and general policing
- 137 additional staff for stepping up fire safety inspection of buildings and community education
- 53 additional ICAC officers for corruption investigations and operations and anti-corruption community relations
- 274 additional staff to cope with the anticipated demand for immigration and customs clearance at the new airport at Chek Lap Kok
- 174 additional staff for providing immigration and customs clearance and fire services at the new River Trade Terminal in Tuen Mun
- 43 additional staff in Correctional Services Department for strengthening rehabilitation and aftercare services
- 183 additional staff for the partial commissioning of the redevelopment of Stanley Prison area (phase II)
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