# Special Needs Trust Office

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- ID: ` hk-swd-rm-list-of-snto `
- 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: 2024-10-16T19:08:46.044707
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): As and when data is updated
- Harvest started: 2026-10-21T22:30:56.999Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-swd-rm-list-of-snto>)

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

## Description

The Chief Executive announced in the 2017 Policy Address that the Government decided to take the lead in setting up a “special needs trust”, to provide reliable and affordable trust services\.  
The Special Needs Trust Office \(SNTO\) was established in December 2018, with the Director of Social Welfare Incorporated as the trustee, for managing the assets of deceased parents\. Regular disbursements will be made to the carers of their children, who may be individuals or organisations, in accordance with the parents’ wishes\. This is to ensure that their assets will be used for meeting the long\-term daily needs of their children\.

## Resources

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

### [Special Needs Trust Office (CSDI Portal)](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1696995837879_56405>)

- Resource ID: ` 9138a502-6b6c-4fa4-ac10-ecff9f46adb3 `
- Format: API
- Language: en, zh-Hant, zh-Hans
- Updated: 2024-10-16T19:08:46.049405
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=swd_rcd_1696995837879_56405 `

The dataset provides information of address and contact numbers of the service unit

## Specifications (source links)

### Publisher documentation

- [Special Needs Trust Service Leaflet](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/storage/asset/section/338/en/SNT_Leaflet_English_202303.pdf>) — source-linked; Dataset: supplementaryDocs
- [Publisher reference](<https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/pubsvc/rehab/cat_fundtrustfinaid/snto/>) — source-linked; Dataset: references

Original links supplied in publisher metadata. A source link does not mean that document content is hosted, parsed or verified here; any hosted extraction and its review scope are listed separately below.


Upstream metadata associations only; these links do not validate individual resources or document sections. No extracted document body is hosted here.

## Document availability

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