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Charitable Fund-raising for victims of the Sichuan earthquake
The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places for victims of the Sichuan earthquake issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

Charitable Fund-raising Activies in August 2008
The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in August 2008 issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

The Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch has issued an invitation letter dated 27 August 2008 to the non-government organizations that are bona-fide non-profit making agencies currently providing social rehabilitation services for mentally ill persons subvented by Social Welfare Department (SWD) for their tendering of quality proposal for operation of the following new rehabilitation project:

• The Integrated Community Centre for Mental wellness at Tin Chak Estate, Tin Shui Wai.

A site visit to the premises and a briefing session will be held as follows.

Site visit
Date: 1 September 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Venue: Unit 503-504, 5/F Ancillary Facilities Block, Tin Chak Estate, Tin Shui Wai.

Briefing session
Date: 1 September 2008
Time: 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Venue: Caritas District Elderly Centre-Yuen Long (Tin Chak Centre), 6/F., Ancillary Facilities Block, Tin Chak Estate, Tin Shui Wai.

Service proposal of no more than 30 pages (For English version, A4 with front size at 12, single-line spacing with all margins also set at 3cm) (For Chinese version, font "" size 13, single-line spacing with all margins also set at 3cm), should be sent in 6 hard copies and 1 soft copy on or before 2 October 2008 (Thursday) 5:00 p.m. to the following address:

Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch
[Attn.: Mr Edmond NG, SS(RM)4]
Social Welfare Department
Rm 901, Wu Chung House,
213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Late Application will not be accepted.

Please download the Invitation Letter (copy), Summaries and full set of the Service Specification and related Annexes of the project.

• Invitation Letter (copy)
• Service Specification
• Summary of the Information to be included in the Proposal
• Annex 1
• Annex 2.1 , Annex 2.2
• Annex 3
• Annex 4.1 , Annex 4.2 , Annex 4.3
• Annex 5
• Annex 6
  

Unit No. 2 (together with Courtyard),
Podium Level 3, Kwai Chung Shopping Centre, Kwai Chung Estate, Tsuen Wan, New Territories (Contract A); and
G/F (part), 1/F - 3/F, Hong Shue House, Lei Muk Shue Estate,
Tsuen Wan, New Territories (Contract B)

Following the publication of a Tender Notice on the above tender in the Government Gazette on 18 July 2008, a Briefing Session was held on 25 July 2008.  Site visits to the premises of Lei Muk Shue Estate (Contract B) and Kwai Chung Estate (Contract A) were conducted on 29 July 2008 and 30 July 2008 respectively.  The powerpoint information (in Chinese) shared in the Briefing Session and the questions and answers raised in the sessions of the "Question and Answer" of the Site Visits can be downloaded here:

1. Briefing
2. Q&A Briefing
3. Site Visit Q&A (Contract A)
4. Site Visit Q&A (Contract B)

Invitation for Proposals to Operate a New Rehabilitation Project (PowerPoint and Summary of Questions and Answers of the Briefing Session)
Following the invitation letter issued to NGOs (welfare) for the caption subject on 4 August 2008 on the new project namely a Day Activity Centre cum Hostel for Severely Mentally Handicapped Persons at Pokfulam Skills Centre, a site visit and briefing session was held on 13 August 2008.  The PowerPoint and Summary of Questions and Answers presented in the session can be accessed here:

1. PowerPoint
2. Summary of Questions and Answers

Because of breaching the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance and/or Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Regulation, the following residential care home for the elderly was successfully prosecuted by the Licensing Office of Residential Care Homes for the Elderly of the Department with details as follows :
1)	Home Name :	Peaceful Elderly Centre Limited
	Home Address :	G/F, 26 Kwong Fuk Road, 54-56 On  Fu Road & 1/F & 2/F, 52 On Fu Road, Tai Po Building, Tai Po, N.T.
	Offences :	A home manager failed, if so required by the Director in writing, to submit to the Director a list of staff employed by an operator under section 11, within 14 days of being so required [breaching Sections 15(1) & 36(2) of the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Regulation].
	Date of Conviction :	17.7.2008

2)	Home Name :	Peaceful Elderly Centre Limited
	Home Address :	G/F, 26 Kwong Fuk Road, 54-56 On  Fu Road & 1/F & 2/F, 52 On Fu Road, Tai Po Building, Tai Po, N.T.
	Offences :	Contravention of condition of the licence [breaching Sections 21(4) & 21(7) of the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance].   Managing a residential care home in contravention of condition of the licence so issued. [breaching Sections 21(3)(a) & 21(7) of the Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) Ordinance].
	Date of Conviction :	1.8.2008

The Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch has issued an invitation letter dated 4 August 2008 to the NGOs (welfare) for their tendering of quality proposal for the operation of a new rehabilitation project, namely:

•  the Day Activity Centre cum Hostel for the Severely Mentally Handicapped Persons (DAC cum H) at Pokfulam Skills Centre, Aberdeen.

Site visit and a briefing session will be held with schedule as follows:

i. 13 August 2008, 10:00am to 11:15am - site visit to the new DAC cum Hostel at 5/F & 6/F, Pokfulam Skills Centre, 147 Pok Fu Lam Road, Aberdeen;
ii. 13 August 2008, 11:30am to 12:15pm - a briefing session at Hall, 1/F, Pokfulam Skills Centre, Aberdeen.

Interested NGOs (welfare) may submit service proposal, which should be not more than 30 pages in A4 size with font size at 12, and in 6 hard copies and 1 soft copy, in a sealed envelope by hand to the following address on or before 1 September 2008 (Monday), 5:00pm:

Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch
(Attn.: Mr. CHAN Kwok-ho, SS(RM)1)
Social Welfare Department
Rm 901, Wu Chung House
213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Late application will not be accepted.

Please download the Invitation Letter (copy), Summary and full sets of the Service Specification and related Annexes of the project.

For further enquiries, you may contact:
Mr CHAN Kwok Ho
SS(RM)1
Tel. no.: 2892 5378

1. Invitation for Proposal
2. Summary of Service Specification
3. PSC Service Specification 24.7.08
4. PSC Service Specification - Annexes 1.1 - 1.3 (Service Brief)
5. PSC Service Specification - Annex 2 (VMP)
6. PSC Service Specification - Annex 3 (Location Map)
7. PSC Service Specification - Annex 4 (Existing Layout)
8. PSC Service Specification - Annex 5 (SoA)
9. PSC Service Specification - Annex 6.1 (TS)
10. PSC Service Specification - Annex 6.2 (Finishes)
11. PSC Service Specification - Annex 6.3 (BS)
12. PSC Service Specification - Annex 7 (LF for F&E)
13. PSC Service Specification - Annex 8 (Information)

The Social Welfare Department is going to accept application made by any body of persons / non-governmental organisation to become accredited bodies for providing local adoption service on a self-financing and non-profit making basis under a new accreditation system starting from August 2008.  For details of the application, please refer to the following document:

• Accreditation System in respect of Local Adoption in the HKSAR including Accreditation Application / Renewal Application at Annex 1 and Adoption Self-Assessment Report at Annex 3.

The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has approved an increase of 4.4% in the standard payment rates under the CSSA Scheme with effect from 1 August 2008 in accordance with the existing mechanism ahead of the normal adjustment cycle this year to ease inflationary pressure on CSSA recipients.

The revised rates effective from 1 August 2008 are provided in the leaflet below :

Information leaflet on standard rates, supplements and special grants under the CSSA Scheme (SSL/12)

(Acrobat Doc)

Marketing Consultancy Office (Rehabilitation) [MCOR] of Social Welfare Department organize 4 stage dramas to be performed on 7:30pm, 10th August 2008 at Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium.  Aim of the program is to enhance public awareness and understanding of working capabilities of people with disabilities (PWDs) that in turn promote a positive attitude and support towards PWDs products and services and social integration. 

The 4 dramas are based on the winning scripts from "SEPD - Let Them Shine" Drama Script Competition that was held on February 2008.   Please visit http://www.info.gov.hk/mcor/tc_chi/events/eventdtl98.html for the complete scripts (Chinese only).

The performance will be conducted in Cantonese only.  Free admission tickets will be distributed on first-come-first-served basis.

Interested parties please submit 'ticket redemption form' (see below) on or before 25th July 2008. For more details, please visit http://www.info.gov.hk/mcor/english/events/eventdtl99.html

Ticket redemption form (Chinese only)

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) is now inviting non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with experience in providing local employment assistance services to operate the projects under the IEAS from October 2008 to September 2011 to help the unemployed able-bodied Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients rejoin the workforce and achieve self-reliance.  There will be a total of 60 employment assistance projects under the IEAS.

If you are interested in operating the projects under the IEAS, please use the standard Application Form to send in your project proposal (including appendices and attachements, if any) of not more than 20 pages (A4 with font size 13) in total.  Applicants should submit a full set of the proposal [the original plus eight hard copies and one soft copy in CD ROM (MS Word 6.0 or above version)] by hand to the following address:   

Support for Self-reliance Section
Social Security Branch
Social Welfare Department
Room 213, 2/F., North Point Government Offices
333 Java Road, North Point,
Hong Kong

Deadline for submission of the application is 5:30 p.m. of 4 August 2008 (Monday).

Late applications will NOT be accepted.  Any application submitted not in the prescribed format of the Application Form or not within the specified volume will not be considered.

A briefing session on the IEAS will be held on 15 July 2008 (Tuesday).  If you wish to attend the briefing session, please complete the Reply Slip and return it to Support for Self-reliance Section of SWD by fax (fax number: 2383 2139) on or before 14 July 2008 (Monday).

For details of the Invitatiotn Letter, Service Specification and Application Form of the IEAS, please click here:

Invitation Letter and Reply Slip
Service Specification
Application Form

For supplementary information on the distribution of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance cases over the territories, please visit the following WebPages for details:
http://www.swd.gov.hk/doc/finance/FAQBudget08_09/BQ-08-09%20SS_eng.pdf (please see Page 49, Question Serial No. 1292)

The Social Welfare Department (SWD) is now inviting bona fide non-profit making agencies currently operating SWD-subvented young people services for at-risk youth (i.e. District Youth Outreaching Teams, Overnight Outreaching Service for Young Night Drifters and Community Support Service Scheme) and/or designated drug treatment and rehabilitation services (i.e. CCPSAs, Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Centres, and Social Clubs for Drug Abusers/Ex-drug Abusers) to operate the CCPSAs in (i) Yuen Long District and/or (ii) Shatin District.  Applicant NGOs interested in operating either one or both new CCPSAs may submit one or two separate service proposals for designated district.

CCPSAs are designated service units providing a continuum of direct community-based non-residential drug treatment and rehabilitation services as well as preventive education services to psychotropic substance abusers and young people at risk.

A briefing session on this invitation for proposal will be held on 14 July 2008 (Monday) at 3:00 p.m. at Room 406, Lady Trench Training Centre at 44 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai.  Registration for the briefing session is detailed in the Invitation Letter as per file attached.

Invitation Letter and Reply Slip for Attending the Briefing Session, Service Specifications (Summary) and its Detailed Description with Annexes 1 to 3 could be downloaded in the files attached below.

- Invitation Letter and Reply Slip for Attending Briefing Session 
- Service Specifications (Summary) - Appendix I 
- Service Specifications (Detailed Description) - Appendix II 
- Funding and Service Agreement - Annex 1 
- Assessment on Service Quality Standards (SQSs) - Annex 2 
- Information to be Included in the Application - Annex 3
 
The closing date of submission of application is 4 August 2008.

Should you have further enquiries, please contact Miss Jessica Cheung, Senior Social Work Officer (Youth)2 at 2892 5128 or Miss Mimi Lo, Social Work Officer (Youth)2 at 2892 5126.

The list of Flag Day Organisers from April 2008 to March 2009 can be downloaded here.