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The Tender Notice for the Implementation of Client Information System for Social Welfare Department (tender reference PT/0307/2006) has been issued by the Government Logistics Department on 16 February 2007.  The tender closing will be at 12:00 noon on 20 April 2007.  Please click the following link for details of the Tender Notice:

https://www.ets.com.hk/English/GeneralInfo/info.asp

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:

i.	10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. -	Site visit to the identified premises (G/F, Hang Yat House, Heng On Estate, Ma On Shan, Shaitn)
ii.	2:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. -	Briefing session at Lecture Room 1, Sha Tin Town Hall

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)

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 twenty Task Group meetings have been held between May 2004 and January 2007.  You may retrieve the notes of the meetings in the following section:

Notes of meeting	Month / Year
First meeting 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

You may download here the notes of the nineteenth meeting.

The list of Charitable Fund-raising Activities in public places in Februray 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.