Social Welfare Department

Information on accumulative number of Senior Citizen Cards being issued

Provide child care service for pre-primary children whose parents or carers are unable to provide proper care to them before/after school hours.

The Hong Kong Paralympians Fund is managed by the Social Welfare Department and overseen by a Management Committee comprising mainly non-official members from the sports and rehabilitation fields, with the assistance of a Grants Sub-committee. The Fund aims to foster the development of sports for persons with disabilities and to support athletes with disabilities in their pursuit of sporting excellence in international events by providing financial assistance to them in all stages of their sporting career.

Number of reports on suspected fraud cases received from the public

Asset limits, standard rates and supplements of social security scheme

Basic Information and Service Quality Information of Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities

Basic Information and Service Quality Information of Residential Care Homes for the Elderly

It provides home living for persons with a severe mental/physical disability who are unlikely to benefit from a regular day training placement. They are in need of nursing and intensive personal care but not yet require infirmary care.

It provides residential care services for elders with visual impairment.

Community Rehabilitation Day Centre (CRDC) provides both professional rehabilitation training service and psychosocial rehabilitation services to discharged patients. It aims at enhancing the patients' physical functioning and self-maintenance abilities; strengthening their domestic living and community living skills; helping them restructure a healthy lifestyle and productive life roles so as to facilitate their integration into the community. CRDC also provides day respite care service for discharged patients, training programmes and educational courses for their family members / carers to strengthen their caring capacities and relieve their pressure so as to improve their quality of living.

Community Rehabilitation Network (CRN) provides assistance to patients with visceral disability or chronic illness to establish a supporting network in the community and to live a meaningful life through the provision of on-going support in the form of educational and training programmes, social networking and social support services.

The dataset provides list of NGOs operating Short-term Food Assistance Service Teams with its agency names, service area, and contact means.

Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home offers educational, vocational and character training for juvenile offenders and for children and young people with behavioural and family problems.

The aim of the Scheme is to provide financial assistance to persons (or to their dependants in cases of death) who are injured as a result of a crime of violence, or by a law enforcement officer (which means any police officer or other public officer on duty) using a weapon in the execution of his/her duty. The Scheme is non-contributory and non-means-tested.

SWD subsidised Cross-boundary and Inter-country Social Service aims to help Hong Kong residents and new arrivals handle and solve welfare problems arising from geographical separation between Hong Kong and the Mainland/ other countries.

It provides day care and training in daily living skills and simple work skills to mentally handicapped persons. It trains them to become more independent in their daily lives, and prepares them for better integration into the community or for transition to other forms of service or care.

Day Care Service for Persons with Severe Disabilities (DC/SD) provides centre-based day care for persons with severe disabilities. Its objective is to promote care in the community by strengthening the caring capability of families or carers through provision of regular day care including nursing, rehabilitation, social and personal care services so as to enhance opportunities of persons with severe disabilities to continue living in the community.

The Social Welfare Department commissioned the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals to operate the “Designated Hotline for Carer Support 182 183” (Carer Hotline), with its full implementation in September 2023. The Carer Hotline, which provides 24-hour services, is answered by professional social workers and aims to reduce the stress and burden induced by daily caregiving, and enhance their caring capability continuously. It provides instant support by phone to the carers, crisis intervention and outreaching service to those facing emergency situation without support. The Carer Hotline will also make referrals to social welfare services units as appropriate so that the needy carers would receive follow-up services.

Social Welfare Department is serving the territory through 11 District Social Welfare Offices, each headed by a District Social Welfare Officer (DSWO).

District Support Centre for Persons with Disabilities (DSC), by adopting a district-based approach, provides one-stop community support services for persons with disabilities and their family members / carers. It aims at enhancing the domestic living and community living skills for persons with disabilities so as to facilitate their integration into the community through the provision of a range of community support services. It also provides training and support services to the family members / carers of persons with disabilities so as to strengthen their caring capacity and to relieve their stress.

District-based Speech Therapy Teams (DSTT) provides speech therapy service to children with mild disabilities enrolled in Integrated Programmes in Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centres (IPs) in its service district. It also provides parents/staff of IPs with consultation service, loan service of reference materials related to speech therapy and educational programmes so that they can better meet the children's actual needs on speech therapy in their daily lives and provide appropriate practice opportunities.

The dataset provides information on district, update date, centre code, centre name and last application date of selected cases in respect of Early Education & Training Centre.

It is designed mainly for children with disabilities from birth to the age of two, providing them with early intervention programmes with particular emphasis on the role of the children's families. Children with disabilities who are aged two to under six and have not yet started primary schooling can also receive the service if they are not concurrently receiving other pre-school rehabilitation services, which will facilitate their integration into the mainstream education system.

To provide longer hours of child care assistance at some standalone Child Care Centres (CCCs) and Kindergarten-cum-CCCs to meet the social needs of families and working parents.

Five-cluster Boundaries of Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities

Five-cluster Boundaries of Residential Care Homes for the Elderly

It provides a transitional period of residential care to facilitate persons in mental recovery to achieve an optimal level of functioning for the purpose of community reintegration.

It provides a transitional period of residential care to facilitate persons in mental recovery with assessed disposition to violence to achieve an optimal level of functioning for the purpose of community reintegration.

Home Care Service for Persons with Severe Disabilities aims at providing a package of home-based support services to meet their personal care, nursing care and rehabilitation training needs of persons with severe intellectual / physical disabilities / moderate nursing care need or functional impairment.  It also aims at relieving the stress of their family members / carers and improving their quality of life.

It provides home living for persons with moderate mental handicap who are capable of basic self-care but lack adequate daily living skills to live independently in the community.

It provides home living for persons with severe mental handicap who lack basic self-care skills and require assistance in personal and nursing care.

It provides home living for severely physically handicapped persons with mental handicap who lack basic self-care skills and require more assistance in personal and nursing care due to their multiple handicaps but are capable of receiving training in a day activity centre.

It provides home living for severely physically handicapped persons, with or without mental handicap, who lack self-care skills and require assistance in personal and nursing care.

The dataset provides information of name of agency/ centre, serving district, address, telephone number, fax number, email and website. https://www.swd.gov.hk/en/pubsvc/young/cat_young/cyber_hotline/hotlineser/

Asset and income limits for Old Age Living Allowance (including Old Age Living Allowance under Guangdong Scheme and Fujian Scheme), Level of Allowance and Supplement of the Social Security Allowance Scheme

The dataset provides information of Suicide Prevention Services - Suicide Crisis Intervention Centre and its office hours, address and telephone number

The dataset provides information on latest application dates of cases selected for services through Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services (excluding Subsystem for Pre-school Children with Disabilities).

The dataset provides information on number of applications waitlisted in the Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services by district and service type. (excluding Subsystem for Pre-school Children with Disabilities)

The dataset provides information on Waiting List for Day Service through Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services – Subsystem for Pre-school Children with Disabilities.

Through the one-stop and integrated service mode, the ICCMW provides one-stop, district-based and accessible community support and social rehabilitation services ranging from early prevention to risk management for persons in mental recovery, persons with suspected mental health problems, their families / carers and residents living in the serving district through a single-entry point.