# Vacancy Enquiry System for Respite Services / Emergency Placement (VES) - Residential Respite Service for Persons with Disabilities

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- ID: ` hk-swd-rm-list-of-rrspwd `
- 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: 2
- Updated: 2026-10-12T16:34:16.133662
- 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-rm-list-of-rrspwd>)

Harvest started is the source harvest start associated with this record, not its precise retrieval time. Updated is an upstream metadata claim.

## Description

Respite services, including residential \(RRS\) and day respite service \(DRS\), are community support services that aim to provide temporary care for Persons with Disabilities \(PWDs\) \(including persons with intellectual disability, physical disability, hearing impairment, visual impairment and persons in mental recovery\), allowing their carers to take a break and relieve their caring stress, thereby encouraging and helping PWDs to live in the community\.

## Resources

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

### [Vacancy Enquiry System for Respite Services/ Emergency Placement --Residential Respite Service for Persons with Disabilities (CSDI Portal)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1696996836933_35643>)

- Resource ID: ` c04a29b5-e546-40af-b66b-527050b3951c `
- Format: API
- Language: en, zh-Hant, zh-Hans
- Updated: 2026-10-12T16:34:16.143397
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1696996836933_35643 `

Residential respite services provide temporary or short\-term residential care service for persons with disabilities, with a view to temporary relief for main caregivers of persons with disabilities, while encouraging and helping persons with disabilities to continue living in the community for as long as possible\.

### [Vacancy Enquiry System for Respite Services / Emergency Placement (VES) - Residential Respite Service for Persons with Disabilities](<https://www.ves.swd.gov.hk/sites/rrpvs-swd/files/rrspwd_list.xml>)

- Resource ID: ` efa3b36a-c0ee-415e-9d35-fd23f3066c81 `
- Format: XML
- Language: en, zh-Hant, zh-Hans
- Updated: 2026-10-12T16:34:15.365493
- Original URL: ` https://www.ves.swd.gov.hk/sites/rrpvs-swd/files/rrspwd_list.xml `

The data resource provides information of unit name, address, district, telephone number and fax number in respect of Residential Respite Service for Persons with Disabilities\.

## Document availability

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