The Social Welfare Department provides residential treatment service for mal-adjusted children and juveniles and young offenders through social work intervention to give effect to the directions of the courts.  To improve service quality and provide better integrated training to the juveniles and young offenders, the Social Welfare Department has in 2007 co-located six correctional and residential homes to Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home (TMCJH), which serves the functions of a place of refuge, a remand home, a place of detention, an approved institution (probation home) and a reformatory school.

The Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home is a gazetted Home. It provides temporary custody and residential training to the above categories of persons under respective ordinance-

Academic, generic and vocational knowledge and skills training programmes are provided to residents to meet their educational needs in varied duration of stay and to enable them to pursue further studies and/or enhance their employability with recognized qualification upon discharge from the Home. 

The Home's social workers interview all the residents upon their admission and  provide social casework to understand their problems, help them settle down and complete the training programmes provided by  the Home. They liaise with the residents' parents/guardians and supervising caseworkers/ probation officers to work out the welfare/rehabilitation plans.  For residents of Place of Refuge and Remand Home, the social workers also prepare reports to the courts to help the magistrates understand the residents' behaviour in the remand period and decide on an appropriate arrangement for their future.

The Home regularly organizes interest groups, theapeutic groups and developmental groups to help the residents develop healthy hobbies and enhance their sense of responsibility and social skills. Parents' groups are also organized to improve the parent-child relationship between the residents and their parents.

Community service projects are organized to help the residents develop a sense of responsibility and to enable the community to have a better understanding of them.

Recreational activities such as music appreciation, reading, ball games and group games are organized for the residents to develop healthy leisure pursuits.

Parents or guardians are welcome and encouraged to visit their children in the Home. For residents of the Probation Home and Reformatory School, leaves  of absences may be granted to enable them to have family reunions.

The Home provides nursing service for the residents.  The visiting medical officer and the Home's nurses look after the residents' health.  Health talks, guidance and counselling on matters of personal hygiene will be given.  For residents who require specialists' consultation, they will be referred to specialists for medical advice and treatment. And for residents who need psychological assessment and treatment, they will be referred to the Clinical Psychologists of the Department.

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