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Social Welfare
170 abusers were jailed, bound over, ordered to perform community service, fined, or given warnings.
Funding
Subventions and Service Monitoring
Through the Lump Sum Grant Subvention System, 170 NGOs received recurrent subventions to provide social welfare services according to government policies. NGOs may also seek grants from the Lotteries Fund to meet their non-recurrent commitments.
The Service Performance Monitoring System 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, through regular self-assessment reports submitted by NGOs and review/surprise visits conducted by the department. The Lump Sum Grant Independent Complaints Handling Committee handles complaints related to NGOs receiving lump-sum grants that cannot be addressed satisfactorily at the NGO level.
Social Welfare Development Fund
The Social Welfare Development Fund supports all subvented NGOs to carry out training and professional development programmes, business system upgrading projects and service delivery enhancement studies. In 2016, about $142 million was approved for 68 NGOs to implement such projects.
Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged
The Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged promotes cross-sectoral collaboration in helping the disadvantaged through social welfare projects by providing grants that match donations. made by business organisations. A portion of the fund has been dedicated since 2015 to providing matching grants to implement more after-school learning and support programmes for primary and secondary students from grassroots families. In 2016, this fund allocated about $92 million for 76 welfare NGOs and schools to implement 90 welfare projects.
Community Investment and Inclusion Fund
The Community Investment and Inclusion Fund finances diversified social capital development projects, promotes trust and reciprocity among the public and different sectors, and builds a cross-sectoral collaborative platform and mutual help networks for a caring Hong Kong. In 2016, it allocated about $36.53 million to 16 new projects. Ongoing projects under the fund recorded about 168,000 participants, including about 18,400 volunteers, and about 1,550 collaboration partners. Together, they built about 180 mutual help networks.
Community Care Fund
The Community Care Fund helps people with financial difficulties, especially those who fall outside the social safety net or who are within the safety net but still have special circumstances that are not covered. Established in 2011, it was integrated into the work of the Commission on Poverty in 2013. It has launched 36 assistance programmes with a total commitment of over $7 billion, benefiting about 1.49 million people. The fund may consider introducing pilot
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