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The Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch has issued an invitation letter dated 25 January 2007 to the NGOs (rehabilitation services) for their submission of quality proposal for the operation of a new project, namely Transitional Care and Support Centre for Tetraplegic Patients (TCSC).

Site visit and a briefing session will be held on 1 February 2007 (Thursday) with schedules as follows:

Service proposal of no more than 50 pages (A4 with font size at 12 and in 6 hard copies and 1 soft copy), should be sent on or before 9 March 2007 (Friday), 5:00 p.m. to the following address:

Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch
(Attn: Mr Charles LEUNG, SS(RM)3)
Social Welfare Department
Rm 901, Wu Chung House
213 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Late application will not be accepted.

For access to the Invitation Letter (copy), Summaries and full sets of the Service Specifications and related Annexes of the project, please click here:

Invitation Letter
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Service Specification of TCSC
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Annex 1 Location Map of TCSC
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Annex 2 layout plan of TCS
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Annex 3 TCSC Information to be included
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The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council has approved an inflation-related increase of 1.2% in the rates of standard payments under the CSSA Scheme and the Disability Allowance under the SSA Scheme with effect from 1 February 2007.

The revised rates effective from 1 February 2007 are provided in the leaflets below :

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

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Information leaflet on payment rates and resource limits under the SSA Scheme (SSL/14)

For implementation of enhanced measures for rehabilitation services for pre-school children with effect from 8 December 2006, Rehabilitation & Medical Social Services Branch has revised the Manual of Procedures of CRSRehab - PS(December 2006).

You may download the Revised Manual of Procedures here
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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, 12 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 nineteen Task Group meetings have been held between May 2004 and November 2006.  You may retrieve the notes of the meetings in the following section:

You may download here the notes of the eighteenth meeting.

To promote social services of Yuen Long in a positive way, Yuen Long District Social Welfare Office has arranged a series of feature articles on Ming Pao (NT West Edition).  Six editions (from July to December 2006) will cover services of Family and Child Protective Service Unit, Integrated Family Service Centre, Support Team for the Elderly, Social Security Field Unit, Youth Outreaching Service, Community Support Service for Ex-mentally Ill Persons.  The updated issues can be downloaded here. (Chinese version only) :

Issue.1(22.7.2006)
Issue.2(19.8.2006)
Issue.3(16.9.2006)
Issue.4(14.10.2006)
Issue.5(11.11.2006)
Issue.6(09.12.2006)

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in January 2007 issued with Public Subscription Permit (PSP) can be downloaded here.

You can also click here to make use of the Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) with search function for more information on approved fund-raising activities.

The list of Flag Day Organisers from April 2006 to March 2007 can be downloaded here.

The list of Flag Day Organisers from April 2007 to March 2008 can be downloaded here.

You can also click here to make use of the Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) with search function for more information on flag day.