Rehabilitation Services
174. The Government will introduce measures to enhance the quality of existing rehabilitation services to step up support for persons with disabilities. Major new initiatives for 2019-20 include increasing 835 rehabilitation service places and purchasing 300 places from private residential care homes for persons with disabilities, gradually setting up five additional District Support Centres for Persons with Disabilities and two additional Support Centres for Persons with Autism, and strengthening the rehabilitation and support services provided by the centres by increasing the manpower of social workers and therapists. These initiatives will involve a total annual recurrent expenditure of around $290 million and benefit about 9 000 service users a year.
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