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4 Int'l Soc. Work 1 (1961)

handle is hein.journals/intsocwk4 and id is 1 raw text is: FAMILY AND CHILD WELFARE IN ASIA - REPORT OF A UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL SEMINAR B. H. Tan* T HE Asia and the Far East Seminar on Family and Child Welfare was organised by the United Nations in co-operation with the Government of the Federation of Malaya. The Seminar was held in Kuala Lumpur from 17th to 30th October, 1960. I. Organization of the Seminar Participants Delegates. Fifteen delegates representing the follow- ing countries took part in the Seminar proceedings: Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Hong Kong, India, Indo- nesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Nepal, North Borneo, Pakistan, Singapore and Thailand. Observers. Five observers from the host country attended the Seminar. Three specialized agencies of the United Nations and a total of ten international non- government organisations were represented by observers. Officers. The United Nations Secretariat was repre- sented by Miss D. Moses as Executive Secretary and Miss Jenny King Yiu Cheung, the delegate from Hong Kong, was appointed as General Rapporteur. The Government of the Federation of Malaya appointed Dato Zainal Abidin bin Hj. Abas, D.P.M.J., O.B.E., M.C.S., Director of Social Welfare in Malaya, to serve as Director of the Seminar and Raja Teh Zaitum bte Kamarelysamon, Assistant Director of Social Welfare in charge of Child Welfare, to serve as Chief Liaison Officer. Mrs. T. T. Memet Tanomidjaja, the .delegate from Indonesia, was elected as the Seminar representa- tive to the Steering Committee. Mrs. M. M. Desai of the Tata Institute of the Social Sciences of India, Mrs. C. N. Then of the Social Wel- fare Department of Malay&, Mrs. Renu Lusanandana of the Department of Public Welfare of Thailand and Mr. Richard Paw U of ECAFE, Bangkok, were appoint- ed by the United Nations as Discussion Leaders. Procedure Followed Technical papers prepared by the Discussion Leaders, the Secretariat of the United Nations for the Seminar and UNICEF were presented at plenary sessions. The Seminar participants, after some preliminary general discussions on each of the topics presented by the discussion leaders, reassembled in three small groups for further and more detailed discussions. II. Opening of the Seminar' The Honourable Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, S.M.N., the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation of Malaya, opened the Seminar and welcomed the delegates on behalf of His Majesty the Yang Di Per- tuan Agong's Government at the Inaugural Meeting on October 17th at the Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur. In his address he said that the Gov- ernment of the Federation of Malaya was both honoured and happy to be the host of the First Regional' Seminar in Asia on Family and Child Welfare under the auspices -of the United Nations. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, who was in America, also sent messages to the Seminar. In his message he said that there was no subject of more fundamental importance to his Government than the welfare of families and children. Dato Ong Yoke Lin, the Minister for Health and Social Welfare, also extended his warm welcome to the delegates as well as the guests who were present at the meeting. He outlined the health and social welfare services in the Federation of Malaya, especially the family and child welfare programme, some of which were undertaken by volun- tary organisations. He added that Malaya firmly believed that the family is the basic unit of our free and democratic society. Miss Jenny Cheung, the delegate from Hong Kong, thanked the Government of the Federation of Malaya on behalf of the delegates and observers. The Director of the Seminar, Dato Zainal Abidin bin Hj. Abas, and Mr. T. Pigot, the representative of the United Nations, also spoke. 1II. Planning, Administration and Co-ordina- tion of Family and Child Welfare Services and Their Contribution to Raising the Standards of Living of the Community Mrs. M. M. Desai of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences of India acted as the discussion leader for the Working Papers No. 2 and 3 and Mr. Richard Paw U of ECAFE acted as the discussion leader for the Working Paper No. 6. As documentation on this topic, the Seminar had before it Working Paper No. 2 entitled Planning, Administration, and Co-ordination of Family and Child Welfare Services, Working Paper No. 3 entitled Plan- ning, Administration and Co-ordination of Family and Child Welfare Services and Their Contribution to Raising the Standards of Living of the Community * Mr. Tan, who is President of the Central Welfare Council of the Federation of Malaya, was the ICSW representative at this Seminar.

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