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Child Abuse in Residential Homes︱After reviewing 31 recruits, SWD: some have been implemented to increase law enforcement experience supervisors

2022-09-30T03:01:13.649Z


The Social Welfare Department set up the "Review Committee on Children's Residential Care and Related Services" after the child abuse case at Tongleju. Yesterday (29th) announced the first phase of the review report and put forward 31 recommendations, including the suggestion that the SWD Steering Group should


The Social Welfare Department set up the "Review Committee on Children's Residential Care and Related Services" after the child abuse case at Tongleju. Yesterday (29th) announced the first phase of the review report, and put forward 31 recommendations, including the recommendation that at least every 12 members of the SWD Steering Group should 6 times a month to make surprise inspections at the residential child care center. The staff ratio of the child care staff in the residential child care center has increased from the current 1:6.2 to 1:4.5. At the same time, dormitory social workers and psychologists have been added.


The Director of Social Welfare, Li Puishi, said on a radio program this morning (30th) that she understands that the community is outraged by the Le Tong Ju incident.

She said that before the report was released, the department had already implemented many recommendations, including strengthening inspections and adding officers with experience in law enforcement and medical care to the supervision team of the SWD's child care centres.


During the monitoring period of Tongleju, the reform was effective

Li Pei-shi mentioned that the report recommends the establishment of a "service quality team" composed of justices of the peace and independent social figures from different professional sectors to conduct unannounced inspections, and to introduce new technologies into the closed-circuit television system to quickly identify employee misconduct.

The report also recommends the introduction of enhanced employee training, the introduction of a superintendent registration system, the establishment of requirements for superintendents to complete child protection training courses and continuing professional education before joining the post, and to establish that superintendents should assume responsibility for reporting suspected child abuse cases.

Regarding the report's suggestion, the SWD will set up a monitoring period for institutions whose service performance is not up to standard. Li Pei-shi pointed out that institutions that do not meet the standards must submit a review report to the department, put forward improvement plans and implementation plans, and submit regular progress reports during the monitoring period. Will consider whether to allow the organisations concerned to continue to provide services subsidised by the Department.

She said that with regard to the child abuse case of Tong Le Ju, Tong Le Ju has seriously violated the service quality standards of the SWD, and there will be a long monitoring period, and the improvement progress must be reported to the department regularly. , strengthening training and increasing the proportion of manpower and other aspects of the reform has been effective.

Child abuse at Tong Leju︱Chen Hengpin said that the frontline wheels must be reformed to increase a sense of belonging: care-free flow surface Tongleju︱Deng Jiabiao’s visit to children is worrying Lin Suwei advocates assessing the emotional health of the candidates Councillor Xun Tongleju Chen Hengpin said that it is running smoothly after the rectification Tian Beichen Hope to create a caring atmosphere Sun Yuhan's interview | Describes that Tong Leju has made progress, denies wrongdoing, and does not punish and supervises will make a big difference

Source: hk1

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