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Sun Yuhan: I have gone to the Credit Insurance Bureau to request a report on the child abuse case in the home

2022-10-02T04:36:56.343Z


A suspected child abuse incident occurred recently at the Po Leung Kuk Infant Group Residential Child Care Centre. The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Sun Yuhan, said in an interview with TVB News today (2nd) that the police are investigating the case, emphasizing social welfare


A suspected child abuse incident occurred recently at the Po Leung Kuk Infant Group Residential Child Care Centre.

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Sun Yuhan, said in an interview with TVB News today (2nd) that the police are investigating the case, emphasizing that the Social Welfare Department is following up seriously, and has urged agencies to thoroughly investigate the incident, review the process and propose improvement measures. A report must then be submitted to the SWD.


Sun Yuhan, Secretary for Labour and Welfare.

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Sun Yuhan pointed out that the inconvenience of commenting on the incident was due to individual cases or the culture of the organization, but mentioned that the SWD set up a "Review Committee for Children's Residential Care and Related Services" after the child abuse case at Tongleju. When the first phase of the review report was released a few days ago, 31 Some of the recommendations have already been implemented. Among them, the suspected child abuse incident of the Po Leung Kuk Infant Unit was discovered this time, which is the result of the strengthened inspection work in the report. The government will continue to follow up on other recommendations in the report.

He also pointed out that at present, about 30% to 40% of the children in such kindergarten residential institutions have special needs. The key tasks in the future include: increasing the ratio of manpower to take care of young children from the current 1:6 to 1:4.5; adding grassroots ranks Share the work of child care workers; cooperate with universities to introduce technology to monitor the situation in institutions, emphasizing the balance of privacy.

The improvement of occupational safety legislation has recently attracted attention. However, during a meeting of the Bills Committee on the Occupational Safety and Health Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill a few days ago, there was a heated dispute between labor and management members over the meeting procedures, and many members left the venue to protest.

However, Sun Yuhan expressed that he still has confidence in the review of the regulations, and believes that every member of parliament is concerned about this matter.

The SWD has requested Po Leung Kuk to submit a report on the child abuse case.

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One more female staff member of the baby group of Po Leung Kuk was arrested for child abuse, pending bail pending investigation Two more staff members of the baby group of Po Leung Kuk involved in child abuse, the bureau increased the number of daily inspections by 1 hour CCTV clip One more staff member of the baby team of Po Leung Kuk was involved in child abuse SWD: The Po Leung Kuk child abuse case has been handed over to the police to be followed up by the SWD. Di Zhiyuan said that after the spot check, it is necessary to actively strengthen internal monitoring.

Source: hk1

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