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Social Welfare
Social Security Appeal Board
The board considers appeals against the SWD's decisions on CSSA, SSA and Traffic Accident Victims Assistance. It ruled on 128 appeals in 2020.
Funding
Subventions and Service Monitoring
The Lump Sum Grant (LSG) Subvention System provided recurrent subventions to 164 NGOs as at end-2020 to provide social welfare services. NGOs may also seek grants from the Lotteries Fund to meet their non-recurrent commitments.
The SWD monitors the output, outcome and service quality of subvented service units by reviewing the NGOs' regular self-assessment reports and conducting review and surprise visits. The Lump Sum Grant Independent Complaints Handling Committee handles LSG-related complaints that cannot be resolved satisfactorily at the NGO level.
An SWD task force is looking into optimising the LSG system. It comprises Legislative Council members; representatives from the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and NGO management, staff and service users; members of LSG-related committees; independent individuals; and representatives from the Labour and Welfare Bureau and the SWD.
Social Welfare Development Fund
The fund supports all subvented NGOs to carry out training and professional development programmes, business system upgrading projects and service delivery enhancement studies. By end-2020, grants totalling about $1 billion had been approved for 161 NGOs.
Partnership Fund for the Disadvantaged
The fund promotes cross-sectoral collaboration in social welfare projects by providing grants that match donations made by businesses. A portion of the fund is dedicated to providing matching grants to implement more after-school learning and support programmes for primary and secondary students from grassroots families. In 2020, about $77 million was allocated for 120 welfare NGOs and schools to implement 140 welfare projects.
Community Investment and Inclusion Fund
The fund finances diversified social capital development projects, promotes trust and reciprocity among the public and various sectors, and builds cross-sectoral collaborative platforms and mutual help networks to achieve a caring Hong Kong. In 2020, it allocated about $83.13 million to 25 new projects. Ongoing projects recorded about 96,800 participants, including about 16,900 volunteers, and about 1,520 collaboration partners. Together, they have built about 170 mutual support 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. As at end-2020, the fund had 31 assistance programmes operating under
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