Children's Leju, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children, was exposed to a series of child abuse incidents. The Independent Review Committee established by the Society for the Protection of Children submitted a report to the Social Welfare Department earlier, indicating that the management must resign and replace the child care workers in an orderly and comprehensive manner. .
DAB Legislative Council member Ge Peifan criticized that the Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong and the Director of Social Welfare have not yet explained the incident, and asked them to explain the incident at a special meeting of the Committee on Welfare Services next Monday (31st).
Ge Peifan has written to the chairman of the House Committee of the Legislative Council, Li Huiqiong, to move to invoke the Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance to set up a special committee to investigate the incident.
Member of the party Zhang Guojun hopes to restore the truth of the incident, emphasizing that if someone makes a mistake, they will be held accountable, and the loopholes in the system must be plugged.
Zhang Guojun questioned that the agency's own investigation was not convincing
When meeting reporters, Ge Peifan said that she will make recommendations at the internal meeting on February 11.
Once passed, the proposal for the establishment of a special committee will be put forward by the chairman of the House Council on behalf of the Legislative Council.
Ge explained that the Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance was rarely used by the Legislative Council in the past, but this incident is not a single incident, but a large-scale abuse incident in a child protection institution.
She stressed that the investigation by the special committee is broad, including investigating other child care centers, whether the government has negligently committed the incident, and the cause of the incident.
Zhang Guojun said that the incident seems to reflect the failure of the entire regulatory system, and he believes that the investigation of the incident by the agency itself is doubtful.
Chen Manqi advocates taking 35 children out of hospital for Chinese New Year
Mak Meijuan of the Federation of Trade Unions also asked the Labour and Welfare Bureau and the Social Welfare Department to explain the incident to the Welfare Affairs Committee next Monday.
She did not rule out that other actions will be taken to follow up, saying that the relevant management is clearly responsible, and it is also worth considering whether the organization will continue to receive government funding.
Chen Manqi, a member of the Election Committee, said that after learning that the 35 abused children were in the hospital, he believed that the arrangement was not appropriate, and called on the SWD to coordinate with other social welfare agencies, such as Po Leung Kuk, to take care of the abused children as soon as possible. Take care of the children concerned and let them have a warm New Year.
Chen Manqi believes that Tong Le Ju should stop operating, and asked the former director general of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children to stop serving as a member of the Children's Affairs Committee.
She pointed out that there are currently only two child protection institutions in Hong Kong, and the government should study to increase the number of institutions providing such services.
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