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As announced by the Chief Executive in the 2007-08 Policy Address, the government will create 3 000 new temporary posts, namely Programme Worker (PW), to enhance employment support for young people aged between 15 and 29 from 2008-09 to 2010-11 subject to budgetary approval by the Legislative Council. The new PW posts are created for helping young people to gain working experience so that they could eventually find jobs in the labour market thus achieving the goal of open employment.

Social Welfare Department (SWD) is responsible for allocating these 3 000 new PW posts to subvented non-governmental organizations (NGO) for assisting social workers to deliver/enrich service/programmes in various service settings to serve different target groups, such as children and youth, secondary students, at-risk youth, young drug abusers, young offenders, elders, persons with disabilities and their family members.

Operating NGOs are responsible for the actual operation of the PW posts including recruitment, posting arrangement, training and supervision. They have been notified of the allocation of PW posts and the employment arrangements by SWD at end of February 2008.

Young people, who are interested in applying for these posts, may find the recruitment advertisements of these posts put up by operating NGOs in the newspaper. The contact phone numbers of operating NGOs can be downloaded here.

The Rehabilitation and Medical Social Services Branch has issued an invitation letter dated 18 March 2008 to the NGOs (welfare) for their tendering of quality proposal for the operation of any ONE of the three new rehabilitation projects, namely:

i) the Care & Attention Home for the Severely Disabled (C&A/SD) at Lei Muk Shue Estate, Tsuen Wan;
ii) the Integrated Rehabilitation Services Centre (IRSC) at Lei Yue Mun Estate, Kwun Tong; and
iii) the IRSC at A Kung Kok Shan Road, Sha Tin.

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

i. 26 March 2008, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – site visit to the new IRSC at A Kung Kok Shan Road, Sha Tin;
ii. 26 March 2008, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – site visit to the new C&A/SD at Lei Muk Shue Estate, Tsuen Wan;
iii. 28 March 2008, 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – site visit to the new IRSC at Lei Yue Mun Estate, Kwun Tong; and
iv. 28 March 2008, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – a common briefing session on all the three projects at the hall of Evangelize China Fellowship Holy Word School, 60 Lei Yue Mun Road, Yau Tong, Kowloon.

Interested NGOs are reminded to study the requirements of the particular project carefully; and service proposal for the intended project of pages not exceeding 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

Rm 901, Wu Chung House

213 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Please note the DEADLINES for each of the projects are different and have been spelt out in Annex 9 of the respective Service Specifications.  No late application will be considered.  The same NGO tendering for more than one project will render their second and third project proposal(s) submitted disqualified.

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

- Invitation Letter (copy)

- Summaries, Service Specifications and Annexes:

C&A/SD at Lei Muk Shue Estate, Tsuen Wan
IRSC at Lei Yue Mun Estate, Kwun Tong
IRSC at A Kung Kok Shan Road, Sha Tin

For further enquiries, you may contact the following officers:

C&A/SD at Lei Muk Shue Estate -	Ms Annisa MA, SS(RM)3, at 2892 5114
IRSC at Lei Yue Mun Estate -	Mr CHAN Ping Ching, SS(RM)2, at 2892 5131
IRSC at A Kung Kok Shan Road -	Mr CHAN Kwok Ho, SS(RM)1, at 2892 5378

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 twenty-five Task Group meetings have been held between May 2004 and March 2008.  You may retrieve the notes of the meetings in the following section:

Notes of meeting	Month / Year
First meeting	September 2004
Second meeting
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

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

To facilitate the improvement of inter-sector collaboration and multi-disciplinary cooperation, and to enhance the current child welfare service systems for achieving the objective of prevention of child death, the Social Welfare Department has launched the Pilot Project on Child Fatality Review.  The Director of Social Welfare has appointed 14 professionals and independent persons from different sectors to serve the Review Panel from 15 February 2008 to 14 February 2010.  The Review Panel is responsible for reviewing all cases of children died of non-natural causes.  Under this mechanism, the Secretariat of the Review Panel will collect relevant information from those service organisations or units that had had contact with the deceased child and/or his/her family members for review purpose. The Brief on the Pilot Project can be downloaded here.

Pilot Project on Child Fatality Review

Powerpoint of Briefing on Child Fatality Review on 4 March 2008 (Chinese only) 

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

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