Advisory Committee on Social Work Training and Manpower Planning

(Appointed by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare)

Enquiry:

c/o Staff Development and Training Section, Social Welfare Department Lady Trench Training Centre,  44 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Professor Thomas WONG Kwok-shing, J.P. (Chairman)
Professor Phyllis CHAN Kwok-ling
Ms. Virginia CHOI Wai-kam
Mr. KWOK Lit-tung, J.P.
Mr. LAI Chi-tong, B.B.S., M.H.
Miss LAM Tze-yan
Ms. Marina WONG Yu-pok, J.P.
Deputy Secretary for Labour and Welfare or representative
Secretary for Education or representative
Director of Social Welfare or representative
Head, Department of Social Work and Social Administration,
The University of Hong Kong or representative
Chair, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong or representative
Head, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University
or representative
Head, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of
Hong Kong or representative
Head, Division of Social Studies, Community College of City
University of Hong Kong or representative
Head, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University or representative
Head, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Shue Yan
University or representative
Chairman, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service or
representative
President, Hong Kong Social Workers Association or
representative

Secretary: Senior Executive Officer (Human Resource Management)
Social Welfare Department
(Tel.: 2575 4321 ext. 178)
(Fax: 2838 9595)

Terms of Reference

To advise Government on all matters relating to the education and training of social workers, including the planning of manpower to meet welfare service needs, and, in pursuing this objective, to carry out the following activities:

(1)	To advise on the need for and the provision of social work education and training in Hong Kong;
(2)	to advise on the co-ordination and planning of social work education and training programmes among social work training institutes in Hong Kong;
(3)	to advise on matters of evaluation and standard setting in social work education and training;
(4)	to advise on the planning of social work manpower to meet the demand for social workers in Hong Kong, including examination of issues relating to such planning;
(5)	to provide opportunities for consultation and co-operation among Government, social work training institutes, voluntary social welfare organizations and social work practitioners; and
(6)	to support the production of indigenous social work training material for Hong Kong.

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