I am confident that after the reform, our education system will better meet their needs. Healthy development of our youth depends not only on school education. Family education also has a very important role to play. Children are greatly influenced by parents' every word and deed. Problematic children are often those without good parental care.
Most parents love their children.
But I have heard from many that they frequently encounter difficulties which they fail to solve in bringing up their children. There are also many who have to earn a living and cannot afford the time to attend to their children. To provide greater support to parents, we will devote more resources to promoting family education to help parents learn about how to guide their children, and to organising activities to foster a closer parent-child relationship. Presently, various youth services are provided by the Education and Manpower Bureau, the Health and Welfare Bureau and the Home Affairs Bureau. I have asked these three bureaux to collaborate in reviewing their resource utilisation and co-ordination with a view to providing, more efficiently, services that are better tailored to the needs of our young people.