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Oct 2009

Application for "The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment" and/ or "Central Fund for Personal Computers"

"The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment" (9th round) and "Central Fund for Personal Computers" (21st round) now accept applications. The deadline for both the Scheme and Fund is 11 December 2009.

Eligible organisations, educational institutes and individual persons with visual impairment may apply for "The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment" whereas "Central Fund for Personal Computers" is for eligible persons with disabilities engaging in self-employment or supported employment service.

Detailed information and application forms can be downloaded from SWD Website:

http://www.swd.gov.hk/en/index/site_pubsvc/
page_rehab/sub_listofserv/id_itforpeople/; or CyberAble.net: http://www.cyberable.net .

Enquiries can be made to Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch, Social Welfare Department:

"The Jockey Club IT Scheme for People with Visual Impairment"

Telephone: 2892 5652; Email Address: srm3@swd.gov.hk; Fax: 2119 9035;

"Central Fund for Personal Computers"

Telephone: 2892 5156; Email Address: srm5@swd.gov.hk; Fax: 2119 9035

Oct 2009

Briefing Session for "Invitation for Proposals to Operate New Rehabilitation Projects"

The information for the briefing session is as follows:

Brief introduction of two new rehabilitation projects

Summary of Q & A

Oct 2009

The operating agencies for the third phase of the Special Training and Enhancement Programme (My STEP)

Five projects under the third phase of My STEP for two years from October 2009 to September 2011 will be implemented by the non-governmental organizations commissioned by Social Welfare Department. The operating agencies and the respective service clusters are:

Operating agencies	Service Clusters
Hong Kong Employment Development Service Limited	Yuen Long and Tin Shui Wai
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals	Shatin and Tai Po/North
The Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association	Tsuen Wan/Kwai Tsing and Tuen Mun
The Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association	Sham Shui Po/Yau Tsim Mong and Wong Tai Sin/Sai Kung
The Salvation Army	Hong Kong Island and Outlying Islands, including Tung Chung in Lantau Island, Kwun Tong and Kowloon City

Oct 2009

Invitation for Proposals to Operate New Rehabilitation Projects

The Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch has issued an invitation letter dated 24 September 2009 to the NGOs operating subvented rehabilitation services for their tendering of quality proposal for the operation of either ONE of the two new rehabilitation projects, namely:

the Integrated Rehabilitation Services Centre (IRSC) at 310 Kwai Shing Circuit, Kwai Chung, New Territories; or

the IRSC at G/F to 3/F, 51 Sheung Shing Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon.

Site visits and a common briefing session will be held with schedules as follows:

5 October 2009 (Monday), 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - site visit to the new IRSC at 51 Sheung Shing Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon

5 October 2009 (Monday), 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - site visit to the new IRSC at 310 Kwai Shing Circuit, Kwai Chung, New Territories; and

6 October 2009 (Tuesday), 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. - a common briefing session on these two projects at Adrich Bay Community Hall, G/F, Oi Po House, Oi Tung Estate, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong.

Interested NGOs are reminded to study the requirements of the particular project carefully; and service proposal for the intended project of pages not exceeding the required limit has to be sent, in 6 hard copies and 1 soft copy in a sealed envelope, by hand before the deadline to:

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

Please note that the deadlines for these two projects are different, which have been stipulated in Annex 9 of the respective Service Specification. Late submission of the full set of copies of proposal will not be accepted. The same NGO tendering for more than one project will render their second project proposal(s) submitted disqualified.

The Invitation Letter (copy), Summaries and full sets of the Service Specifications and related Annexes of the two projects, can be downloaded here:

The Invitation Letter (copy)
Summary and full set of the Service Specification and related Annex (Ho Man Tin)
Summary and full set of the Service Specification and related Annex (Kwai Chung)

For further enquiries, you may contact the following officer:

Miss CHAN Lai-chu, Senior Social Work Officer (Rehabilitation & Medical Social Services)1, at 2892 5378

Oct 2009

Provision of One-off Grant for Education-related Expenses

The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council approved on 19 June 2009 the provision of a one-off grant for education-related expenses of $1,000 for needy students. Students from kindergarten to secondary education who are eligible in the 2009/10 school year for the flat-rate grant for school-related expenses under the Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) Scheme and kindergarten students who are eligible for fee assistance under the Fee Assistance (FA) Scheme for Child Care Centres in the same school year will benefit from the one-off grant.

Beneficiaries are not required to make application for the one-off grant. Applicants of the CSSA cases eligible for the one-off grant will receive the one-off grant on 30 September 2009 through the existing payment arrangement (i.e. normally through bank payment credited to the designated bank account). Applicants of the FA cases eligible for the one-off grant will receive a crossed cheque amounting to $1,000 by post issued on the same day.

Oct 2009

Additional and Planned Places of Rehabilitation Services

Information on additional and planned places of rehabilitation services for the period of May 2009 to November 2009 has been announced. Please download the information here.

Oct 2009

Conversion to Calendar Month Basis in Paying Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA)

To make household budgeting easier for CSSA recipients, with effect from September 2009, all CSSA cases where the payment is not made on calendar month basis originally have been changed to calendar month basis and the pay day of these cases has also been changed to the first day of each month. Recipients starting to receive CSSA from October 2000 onwards are not affected as payment has already been made on calendar month basis and their pay day would remain unchanged.

Oct 2009

Task Group on Implementation of Integrated Family Service Centres

The Task Group on Implementation of Integrated Family Service Centres (IFSCs) (Task Group), comprising representatives from all the nine Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating IFSCs, two NGOs operating the Integrated Services Centres in Tung Chung, 11 District Social Welfare Offices of Social Welfare Department (SWD) and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, was formed in May 2004 to discuss on operational issues and common areas of concerns arising from the implementation of IFSCs. A total of thirty Task Group meetings have been held between May 2004 and September 2009. You may retrieve the notes of the meetings in the following section:

Notes of meeting	Month / Year
First meeting	September 2004
Second meeting	September 2004
Third meeting	October 2004
Fourth meeting	November 2004
Fifth meeting	December 2004
Sixth meeting	January 2005
Seventh meeting	March 2005
Eighth meeting	April 2005
Ninth meeting	June 2005
Tenth meeting	July 2005
Eleventh meeting	September 2005
Twelfth meeting	October 2005
Thirteen meeting	December 2005
Fourteenth meeting	February 2006
Fifteenth meeting	April 2006
Sixteenth meeting	June 2006
Seventeenth meeting	September 2006
Eighteenth meeting	December 2006
Nineteenth meeting	February 2007
Twentieth meeting	April 2007
Twenty-first meeting	June 2007
Twenty-second meeting	September 2007
Twenty-third meeting	December 2007
Twenty-fourth meeting	March 2008
Twenty-fifth meeting	June 2008
Twenty-sixth meeting	October 2008
Twenty-seventh meeting	January 2009
Twenty-eighth meeting	April 2009

You may download here the notes of the twenty-ninth meeting.

Oct 2009

Flag Day Organisers from April 2009 to March 2010

The list of Flag Day Organisers from April 2009 to March 2010 can be downloaded here.

Oct 2009

Charitable Fund-raising Activities for October 2009 and November 2009

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in October 2009 issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in November 2009 issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

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