The SWD has set up a Review Committee on Children's Residential Care and Related Services to comprehensively review the supervision of children's residential care and related services. The review started this month and is expected to be completed in March next year.
Di Zhiyuan, a member of the committee and a member of the Legislative Council from the social welfare sector, said in a radio program today (21st) that the committee will review the service quality and supply and demand of children's homes, and its powers are broader than expected.
He said that the most important thing is to review the supervisory role of the SWD, because the Tong Leju incident reflects the loopholes in the SWD's supervisory mechanism. In the past, we mainly looked at documents and procedures rather than the reaction of service users. He believed that if users were unhappy, they would also Can reflect poor service quality.
Di Zhiyuan pointed out that the committee should review the entire supervision mechanism to prevent the occurrence of bad operations. He also said that the current supervision mechanism has loopholes. It is clear that there are closed-circuit telephones in the institutions, but the SWD has not fully used them in supervision.
He also believes that the committee must review the manpower training of institutions, including manpower ratio and on-the-job training.
He hopes to communicate directly with the service unit to understand the actual operation, and believes that it will be more "in place".
Child Abuse Cases at Tongleju｜The SWD establishes a committee to review the supervision of children’s accommodation and submit a report in March next year. The new management of Tongleju will be reorganized in the next 9 months to reform the child abuse case of Tongleju, etc.｜Individual Incident or institutional issue?
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