# Statistics on Foster Care Service

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- ID: ` hk-swd-fcw-key-statistics-on-cfcu-service `
- Publisher: [Social Welfare Department](/publishers/d545faf5-0f72-4606-9150-f11714c3e73d/) · [Markdown](/publishers/d545faf5-0f72-4606-9150-f11714c3e73d/index.md)
- Categories: [Community and Social Welfare](/categories/social-welfare/) · [Markdown](/categories/social-welfare/index.md)
- Tags: Not stated
- Resources: 1
- Updated: 2021-07-05T06:59:27.523868
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): Quarterly
- Harvest started: 2026-10-20T22:31:00.105Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-swd-fcw-key-statistics-on-cfcu-service>)

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## Description

The dataset provides information on Foster Care Service by number of Foster Homes and by number of Foster Children in Placement

## Resources

These are upstream resource links from metadata. Resource contents and endpoint availability have not been verified here.

### [Information on Foster Care Service by number of Foster Homes and by number of Foster Children in Placement](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/fcw/key-statistics-on-cfcu-service.csv>)

- Resource ID: ` 23e97c06-ac36-4617-a5db-59935aa635f1 `
- Format: CSV
- Language: en, zh-Hant
- Updated: 2021-07-05T06:59:27.528694
- API flag (publisher metadata): N
- Original URL: ` https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/fcw/key-statistics-on-cfcu-service.csv `

The dataset provides information on Foster Care Service by number of Foster Homes and by number of Foster Children in Placement

## Specifications (source links)

### Publisher documentation

- [Data dictionary](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/datagovhk/fcw/key-statistics-on-cfcu-service-DataDic.pdf>) — source-linked; Dataset: data\_dictionary

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## Document availability

Parsed specifications and data dictionaries: not available for this dataset. [Document availability](/documents.md).