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The Chairman of the working group, Mrs Patricia Chu, who is also Assistant Director of Social Welfare (Family and Child Welfare), will give an overview of the issue of spouse battering and highlight the importance of multi-disciplinary approach in the handling of battered spouse cases at the seminar.
The working group, set up in April last year, is convened by the Social Welfare Department (SWD) and comprises representatives from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, the Police Force, Department of Health, Hospital Authority, Education, Housing, Information Services, Legal and Legal Aid departments.
It is tasked with the following terms of reference:
to examine the existing service provision and to recommend new measures to tackle the problem of battered spouses;
to examine the existing procedures and to draw up a set of multi- disciplinary procedural guidelines on handling of battered spouse cases; and
to strengthen co-ordination and co-operation among concerned government departments and non-governmental organisations in handling and combating the problem of battered spouse.
The working group has held five meetings since Last April and has drawn up a set of multi-disciplinary guidelines on handling of battered spouse cases for reference of various professionals from concerned government departments and non- governmental organisations.
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Second health promotion centre for women opened
Another Woman Health Centre set up by the Department of Health has started to operate in Chai Wan today (Thursday) to provide health promotion and disease prevention programmes for women aged between 45 and 64.
The new centre, Chai Wan Woman Health Centre, is the second of such clinic runs by the department. The first one is in Lam Tin.