2019-20 Annual Service Provision and Statistics - Child Care Services
The service provision and statistics are as follows:
- Adoption Service
| No. of Units | 2019-20 | |
|---|---|---|
| No. of new adoption applications processed | ||
| SWD | 2 | 47 (Local adoption) |
| NGO | 3 | 33 (Local adoption) 7 (Intercountry adoption) |
- Residential Child Care Services
| 2019-20 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Centres | Number of Places | Average Enrolment Rate | |
| Foster Care Service | Not applicable | 1 130 | 82% |
| Children’s Home | 5 | 418 | 90% |
| Small Group Home | 116 | 924 | 94% |
| Boys’/Girls’ Hostel | 4 | 95 | 90% |
| Boys’/Girls’ Home with School for Social Development on-site | 7 | 772 | 75% |
| Boys’/Girls' Home without School on-site | 4 | 231 | 84% |
- Day Child Care Services
| 2019-20 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Centres | Number of Places | Utilisation Rate | |
| Standalone Child Care CentreNote 1 | 30 | 3402 | 64% |
| Occasional Child Care Service | 218 (units) | 449 | 49% |
| Extended Hours Service | 167 | 2 286 | 38% |
| Mutual Help Child Care Centre | 19 | 261 | 8.4% |
| Neighbourhood Support Child Care Project | 18 | 954Note 2 | 10 704Note 4 |
Note 1
Standalone child care centres (CCCs) include aided standalone CCCs and non-profit-making/private standalone CCCs. CCCs attached to kindergartens which are under the administration of the Education Bureau Joint Office for Kindergartens and Child Care Centres also provide child care services to children aged under three. All CCCs and CCCs attached to kindergartens must be registered in compliance with the requirements under the Child Care Services Ordinance (Cap. 243) and the Child Care Services Regulations (Cap. 243A). In 2019-20, there were about 35 000 CCC places in total and about 7 300 of them were aided places.
Note 2
Service operator has the flexibility to increase the number of home-based child care service places on top of the minimum requirement set by the SWD to meet the actual service demand.
Note 3
Number of service users.