Grade Management Section 15.17 The Grade Management Section (GMS) aims to develop a more focused, systematic and integrated approach for the management of Departmental and Common Grades as well as Model Scale I staff in terms of manpower planning, career development and training, recruitment, posting, performance management and promotion. The departmental posting policy and mechanism has been in place since May 2002. It was last revised in November 2009 to incorporate changes of the swopping mechanism for the transfer of Social Work Assistant (SWA) grade staff in and out of the Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home. The posting mechanisms for SWA, Social Security Assistant and Welfare Worker grades will be reviewed in 2011 with a view to further enhancing their operation. To better understand the concerns of staff members in their work settings as well as to listen to their views and comments, the GMS conducted 71 and 73 goodwill visits to different units in districts/headquarters and arranged 765 and 751 career interviews in 2009-10 and 2010-11 respectively.   Staff Development and Training Section 15.18 The Staff Development and Training Section (SDTS), comprising the HRM Development Unit, the Training Unit and the Training Administration Unit, is responsible for the formulation and implementation of the annual training and development plan and other HRM initiatives to enhance business efficiency and career development of staff members. A total of 675 programmes were organised and co-ordinated for about 15 900 participants from SWD, other government departments and NGOs in 2009-10 and 660 programmes for about 15 000 participants in 2010-11. The details are shown in Charts 23 to 26 below.