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Social Welfare 209

Since its establishment, CDF has received overwhelming support from the community and its projects have been running smoothly. So far, two batches of 22 projects have been rolled out, benefiting 2 270 children aged between 10 and 16. More projects will come on stream to meet our target of benefiting at least 13 600 children.

The Government has commissioned a consultant to evaluate the pioneer projects and make recommendations on how to develop the CDF further into a longer-term model to promote child development in Hong Kong.

Clinical Psychological Services

Working under the SWD and NGOs, 73 clinical psychologists provide a range of services to welfare units handling family casework, rehabilitation and correctional matters. The services include psychological assessment, treatment, consultation, staff training and public education. During the year, 3 816 clients were treated, and 3 251 psychological assessments and 18 927 treatment sessions were conducted.

Voluntary Work

The Steering Committee on Promotion of Volunteer Service ran a series of promotional and publicity programmes during the year under the theme 'One Family One Heart' to encourage cross-sector collaboration and family participation in voluntary work. The revamped Volunteer Movement website. www.volunteering-hk.org was launched in August 2010. The official Facebook Page of Volunteer Movement (www.facebook.com/Volunteer. Movement), hosted by the Director of Social Welfare, was launched in September 2010, to appeal to the public to support the Volunteer Movement. By year-end, more than 2 110 organisations and 930 000 individuals had registered for voluntary service.

Subventions and Service Monitoring

Recurrent subventions and capital grants were given to 171 NGOs to provide social welfare services in accordance with government policies. Capital grants from the Lotteries Fund were allocated to NGOs on the advice of the Lotteries Fund Advisory Committee. The Service Performance Monitoring System (SPMS) keeps track of the output, outcome and service quality of subvented units according to 16 well- defined service quality standards and specific funding and service agreements for the service units concerned. Under the SPMS, the performance of subvented service units is also monitored through regular self-assessment reports submitted by NGOs, review and surprise visits conducted by the SWD and systematic collection of feedback from service users on the service delivery.

A Help Desk set up for small NGOs on a time-limited basis aims at rendering advice to small NGOs on subvention matters and helping them enhance their competence in corporate governance and achieve sustainability in the LSG subvention environment.