Annual Highlights

Highlights of the Year 2022-23

Increasing Aided Child Care Centre Places

Two aided standalone Child Care Centres (CCCs) located in Tai Po and Yuen Long districts commenced services in January and March 2023, respectively, providing an additional 180 service places.

Regularisation of Social Work Service for Pre-Primary Institutions

The service was regularised in 2022-23.  It serves about 130 000 children and their families across more than 730 participating pre-primary institutions in Hong Kong by facilitating early identification of families with welfare needs, including those at risk of child maltreatment, and providing assistance to them.

Review of Residential Child Care and Related Services

The Committee on Review of Residential Child Care and Related Services (the Committee) was set up in April 2022.  The Committee’s purpose is to comprehensively review residential child care and related services, with a view to strengthening monitoring, enhancing service quality and safeguarding children’s well-being.  The Committee completed the first and second phases of the review in August 2022 and March 2023, respectively.  It has put forward a total of 70 recommendations for improvement in 3 major review areas, namely “service quality”, “service regulation and monitoring”, and “service planning and provision”.

Publicity Campaign on “Strengthening Families and Combating Violence”

Continued to launch the territory-wide publicity campaign.  Through a series of large-scale publicity and district-based programmes, the campaign aims to raise public’s awareness on the prevention of domestic violence and child protection, and encourage those in need to seek early assistance.  In 2022, the campaign celebrated its 20th anniversary.  SWD has designated the 20th of November every year as “Child Protection Day”.

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