District Youth Outreaching Social Work Teams 10.7 Following extensive consultation with the welfare sector and frontline workers on how best to address the needs of high-risk youth and tackle issues of juvenile gang problems, SWD set up 16 District Youth Outreaching Social Work Teams (YOTs) in September 2002 by restructuring the former outreaching social work teams. In view of the increasing number of young drug abusers and the growing prevalence of psychotropic substance abuse, new recurrent resources was injected in 2010-11 to enhance the staff provision of 16 YOTs in order to provide early identification and engagement of at-risk youths, in particular young drug abusers.   Child Development Fund 10.8 The Government established the $300 million Child Development Fund (CDF) in 2008 so as to draw on the resources from the family, the private sector, the community and the Government to support the longer-term development of children aged between 10 and 16 from disadvantaged background. SWD has been entrusted with the operational responsibility of CDF.     10.9 The first two batches of a total of 22 CDF projects were smoothly rolled out in December 2008 and June 2010 respectively, benefiting a total of 2 270 children aged between 10 and 16. More projects will come on stream to meet the target of benefiting a total of 13 600 children. A consultancy team has been commissioned to evaluate the first batch of seven pioneer projects and make recommendations on ways to develop the CDF further into a longer-term model to promote child development in Hong Kong. Support Service to Youth Employment 10.10 Pursuant to the 2007-08 Policy Address, the Government has allocated additional resources to SWD for three years to create 3 000 time-limited Programme Worker (PW) posts from 2008-09 to 2010-11 for the purpose of helping needy young people aged between 15 and 29 to gain working experience so that they could be better equipped for open employment in the labour market. All these PW posts were allocated to subvented welfare NGOs in April 2008 for assisting social workers to deliver service-related programmes. These 3 000 temporary posts have been extended for one year to March 2012 so as to assist young people in joining the open labour market.