This volume is a response to the challenges facing advocates of social welfare in Hong Kong in the new millennium, including the changing subvention mode, the need for a greater emphasis on service quality and accountability, and the rising complexity of the needs of different client groups.

A fact sheet on social welfare services in Hong Kong. Has a section "Services for offenders."

This work collates a number of case studies by former students on the Master of Arts (social work) programme whose stream of study was social services administration. Many of these studies involved the action learning projects conducted by them. Academic colleagues and experienced administrators in the welfare and health sector also contribute their insights and experience regarding the major theoretical and conceptual issues in social services administration.