But, considering how well the voluntary policies work, it would seem to make sense to replace mandatory arbitration with voluntary plans.
"The evidence is that coerced treatment works at least as well as voluntary treatment," he wrote.
"It may well be voluntary after 2016, it may not exist after 2016," he said.
He advises anyone in urgent need to seek alternative support from the Samaritans, Childline, The Site, the Young Minds website, as well as voluntary sector organisations.
In the big cites, where welfare services are well established, voluntary organisations are almost non-existent.In this section Is Hong Kong ripe for a bit of central planning?
The committee will recommend that the Criminal Records Bureau should act as the 'one-stop shop' where people who run children's homes, schools, playgroups - as well as voluntary groups such as Scouts and Girl Guides - can check whether any job applicant has a history of child abuse.
The existence of those initiatives shows that there is a consciousness on social implications in the sector as well as voluntary commitments.
The pressure to shift away from herbicides is motivated by environmental policy operating at a national or regional level as well as voluntary subscription by forest growers to independent forest certification schemes, such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).
Although United Nations efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation have been slow to develop in the international arena, jurisdictional-scale REDD + activities (as well as voluntary projects) require high-fidelity carbon maps to raise the per-hectare value of ecosystem carbon stocks and avoided emissions.
The country has scaled up lifesaving anti-HIV treatment as well as voluntary medical male circumcisions, which sharply reduce the chance of becoming infected.
