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Highlights of Carrie Lam's maiden Policy Address - Page 4 of 9 - Harbour Times

Highlights of Carrie Lam’s maiden Policy Address

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4. Youth & Education

4.1 Education

  • Increase recurrent education expenditure to 5 billion/year, 3.6 billion of which has been allocated to various education initiatives this school year
  • Make Chinese History a compulsory subject for junior secondary level in the 2018/19 school year

4.2 Child care centres

  • Add 300 places in aided stand-alone child care centres in North District, Kwun Tong, Kwai Tsing, and Shatin from 2018-19
  • Inject $400 million into the Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged, $200 million of which will be used for implementing after-school learning for about 130,000 grassroot children

4.3 Children with special educational needs

  • Invest $460 million a year for Pre-school Rehabilitation Services, which caters for children with special education needs, ie. children suffering from autism, hyperactivity disorder, language disorder, or dyslexia

4.4 Youth participation in policymaking

  • Increase the overall ratio of youth members (i.e. persons who are aged between 18 and 35) to 15% within the current‑term government
  • The proposed Policy Innovation and Co‑ordination Unit will recruit 20 to 30 young people on a non‑civil service contract basis
  • The Youth Development Commission will be chaired by the Chief Secretary and will be set up in the first half of 2018 to enhance policy co‑ordination within the government
  • The Home Affairs Bureau will launch a “Youth Ambassadors” scheme

4.5 Space Sharing Scheme for Youth

  • About 60,000 sq. feet of shared space for youth in revitalised industrial buildings and commercial buildings set to be rolled out in the first half of 2018