2020-21 Annual Service Provision and Statistics - Child Care Services

The service provision and statistics are as follows:

Adoption Service

No. of Units		2020-21
No. of Units		No. of new adoption applications processed
SWD	2	47 (Local adoption)
NGO	3	40 (Local adoption) 13 (Intercountry adoption)

Residential Child Care Services

	2020-21
	Number of Centres	Number of Places	Average Enrolment Rate
Foster Care Service	Not applicable	1 130	82%
Children’s Home	5	418	86%
Small Group Home	116	924	94%
Boys’/Girls’ Hostel	4	95	87%
Boys’/Girls’ Home with School for Social Development on-site	7	772	68%
Boys’/Girls' Home without School on-site	4	240	81%

Day Child Care Services

	2020-21
	Number of Centres	Number of Places	Utilisation Rate^{Note 3}
Standalone Child Care Centre^{Note 1}	29	3 353	47%
Occasional Child Care Service	220 (units)	452	11%
Extended Hours Service	168	2 309	7%
Mutual Help Child Care Centre	19	261	3.1%
Neighbourhood Support Child Care Project	18	954^{Note 2}	7 979^{Note 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 2020-21, there were about 35 600 CCC places in total and about 7 900 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}
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, there is a decrease in the average utilisation rate/number of service users.

^{Note 4}
Number of service users.

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