One after another incidents of child abuse in residential care homes have occurred. Di Zhiyuan, Chairman of New Thinking and Legislative Council Member, believes that it is obviously not a single incident. He wrote to Chief Executive Li Jiachao, hoping to set up an independent investigation committee to follow up and review the problems and difficulties of children’s residential homes in Hong Kong. .
Policies and resources cannot be handled by the institution itself, and inspections are difficult to prevent from happening
Di Zhiyuan said that the incident cannot only be attributed to the inappropriate behavior of individual employees, but believes that it must involve deeper problems, including the management culture, manpower, resources, professional training and promotion opportunities of the children's home, and also involves the SAR government's treatment of the home. Construction, assistance and support of various resources, and regulatory issues.
He said that these are not completely handled by the institutions themselves and require the cooperation of government policies and resources.
Di Zhiyuan said that the current government's supervision of children's institutions is to strengthen inspections, but he believes that inspections can only find problems, not prevent them. A better approach is to find fundamental problems, such as manpower ratio, staff mobility, and resources. allocation and distribution, teacher and professional training, institutional supervision and supervision, etc.
Established by Di Zhiyuan, Li Jiachao appointed an independent investigation committee to follow up on a series of child abuse incidents. The members could include school social workers, care practitioners, parents, representatives of institutions, doctors, psychologists, scholars, legal professionals, parliamentarians, etc. The president of the university serves as the chairperson to examine the problems and difficulties of children's institutions in Hong Kong, as well as the operation between institutions and institutions, and between the government and institutions, and to resolve issues related to government policies and resources.
Di Zhiyuan emphasized that the continuous outbreak of multiple child abuse cases is serious, and the above-mentioned investigation committee should submit a preliminary report within three months and a comprehensive report and recommendations within six months.
As for short-term measures, he suggested that the SWD should immediately issue guidelines for the prevention and investigation of child abuse incidents to all child service agencies in Hong Kong, and require the agencies to formulate internal working rules and strengthen relevant training for staff.
Regarding the government's establishment of a mandatory reporting mechanism for suspected child abuse cases, Di Zhiyuan requested that the draft be submitted to the Legislative Council for deliberation by the end of the year.
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