Annual Highlights

Highlights of the Year 2023-24

Publicity Campaign On “Strengthening Families and Combating Violence”

Under the theme “Love guards the family．Protecting children begins with the family”, the publicity campaign aimed to promote the message that family is the foundational backbone for providing children with love, care and protection.  Apart from large-scale publicity and district-based programmes, two micro-movies were produced, featuring performances by artists Kaki Sham and Margaret Chung, to raise public awareness of how violence harms both the physical and mental well-being of children and parent-child relationships.  The films also remind parents how to manage their emotions during stressful times and seek early help when necessary.

Increasing Aided Standalone Child Care Centre Places

Two aided standalone Child Care Centres (CCCs) in the North District commenced services in January and March 2024 respectively, providing 156 additional service places.

Reengineering of Mutual Help Child Care Centres to Provide After-school Care Programme for Pre-primary Children

All 16 mutual help child care centres completed their re-engineering in 2023-24, providing a total of 672 service places of after-school care programme for pre-primary children.

Implementation of District-based Social Work Service for Pre-primary Institutions

District-based social work teams were set up in phases from the 2023/24 school year.  16 teams were set up in four SWD districts (including Eastern and Wan Chai, Sham Shui Po, Tai Po and North, and Tuen Mun) to provide social work services for subsidised/aided pre-primary institutions in their respective catchment areas.

Increasing Places of Residential Child Care Services

Three more small group homes in the Eastern District were set up in December 2023, providing a total of 24 additional small group home places and three additional places for emergency/short-term care in small group homes.

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