At the end of last year, the Child Care Centre of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children was exposed to several employee child abuse scandals. The Social Welfare Department subsequently established a Child Residential Care and Related Services Review Committee to review related services.
The SWD reported the first phase report at the Children's Commission meeting today (18th) and proposed 31 improvement measures, including increasing the number of places and manpower ratios in CCCs, stepping up inspections and installing new technologies such as closed-circuit television, and recruiting more foster family.
On 18 August, the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-kee, chaired the Children's Committee meeting for the first time.
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▼Children Protection Association "Tongleju" staff involved in child abuse scandal▼
The Post-Tongleju Incident Committee will report its recommendations to the Children's Commission
At the meeting, the SWD briefed the first-stage review report of the Review Committee on Residential Care and Related Services for Children, focusing on the review of the services of residential child care centres and residential special child care centres for children under the age of 6, and put forward 31 improvement recommendations, including:
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In terms of service quality:
1. Increase the manpower ratio of child care workers in residential child care centers and increase the number of child care assistants.
2. Introduce inter-professional support; strengthen staff training
. Training courses for children, after joining the job, they must continue to learn, and bear the responsibility of reporting suspected child abuse cases
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In terms of service regulation and monitoring:
1. Strengthen inspection efforts, including adding nurses as health and hygiene inspectors and persons who have worked in law enforcement agencies in the SWD Child Care Centre Steering
Team 3. The
CCTV
system of the residential child care center introduced new technology to quickly identify staff misconduct,
etc.
In terms of service planning:
1. Increase more residential care service premises for children
2. Strengthen recruitment and support for foster parents to provide more family-style care services
The SWD stated that the Government will follow up the recommendations in the review report according to priority, and the review committee will also launch the second phase of the review on other residential care services for children, which is expected to be completed in March next year.
▼1.26 The Society for the Protection of Children released a report involving "Tongleju"▼
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The Tongleju incident and a number of child abuse cases in the society in recent years have drawn the community’s attention to the reporting mechanism for child abuse. 's bill.
The government will hold an exchange meeting in September to consult the social welfare and education sectors on compulsory reporting of child abuse
However, the government said today that the government will hold a stakeholder exchange meeting in September to consult the social welfare, education and healthcare sectors respectively on the proposal on mandatory reporting requirements for suspected child abuse cases. Introduce the bill to the Legislative Council.
As for today's Committee on Children's meeting, there was also a consultation on the proposal on mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse cases. According to the proposal, the Government will legislate to impose statutory obligations on designated categories of practitioners, requiring them to report specified categories of abuse or neglect to the relevant authorities In cases of children, offenders will be held criminally liable.
▼The Social Welfare Department will enter the "Tongleju" on January 17▼
Chan Kwok-kee chairs the Children's Committee for the first time: Committed to making children grow up healthily and happily
The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-kee, who chaired the committee meeting for the first time, said that the Government attaches great importance to the well-being of children and is committed to providing children with a safe and ideal environment, so that they can grow up healthily and happily, develop in an all-round way and realize their full potential. Agencies work together to safeguard the well-being of children and build a child-friendly society.
Child Abuse at Tongleju｜The report is released, advocating surprise inspection committee member: still to be held accountable to the Child Protection Association for child abuse at Tongleju｜The review report advocates increasing the number of places for children and raising incentives to recruit foster families in the child abuse case at Tongleju｜Involving Punishing two children and scolding staff for abandoning professional ethics Sentenced to 4 months 10 weeks in prison
