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     Following is the transcript of remarks by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Dr Law Chi-kwong, on the judgment of a case of neglect of a child handed down by the Court of First Instance of the High Court this afternoon (June 29) after attending the “Unleashing Rehabilitated Offenders’ Potential” Employment Symposium of the Correctional Services Department:

Reporter: How would the Government improve the current mechanism to avoid these incidents from happening again?

Secretary for Labour and Welfare: From the education and also from the welfare perspective, we do consider that there are things we can improve. In particular, because most of the vulnerable children are very young, it is very important to improve the services that we are providing both at the primary school and also the kindergarten level.

     Starting from next year, we will be providing school social work service to the kindergartens in Hong Kong (Pilot Scheme on Social Work Service for Pre-primary Institutions). Although it is a pilot, it will take probably three years for us to fully provide the whole service to all the close to 1 000 kindergartens (child care centres, kindergartens and kindergarten-cum-child care centres) in Hong Kong, we have to start. It is important for us to ensure that the service at the end will be provided to all those children.

(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.) read more

     The Government today (June 29) announced the appointment of the Commission on Poverty (CoP) and its two Task Forces, namely the Community Care Fund Task Force and the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund… read more

     The Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) today (June 29) announced that in response to requests from interested tenderers, the tender period for the contract for Cross Bay Link, Tseung Kwan O – road D9 and associated works has been extended to noon on July 20.
 
     The CEDD invited tenders for the contract on April 27. The original tender period was scheduled to expire at noon on July 6.
 
     The extension of the tender period was gazetted today. Details of the tender notice are available at the CEDD’s website
(www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/tender/contract/tender/index.html#NE/2017/08). read more

     The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health today (June 29) reported that the suspected case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) pending results yesterday (June 28), upon preliminary testing, tested negative … read more

     An order to remove and dispose of human remains buried in 2011 in six public cemeteries was gazetted today (June 29).

     The order was made under section 119A of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Chapter 132), which empowers the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (DFEH) to direct the removal and disposal of human remains buried in public cemeteries for a period of not less than six years.

     The six cemeteries are the coffin sections of Wo Hop Shek Cemetery, Cheung Chau Cemetery, Tai O Cemetery and Lai Chi Yuen Cemetery on Lantau; the “T” Section of Sandy Ridge Cemetery; and the Government Urn Section of Sandy Ridge Urn Cemetery in Lo Wu.

     People who wish to arrange for private exhumation and disposal of the human remains subject to removal should apply to the department’s Cemeteries and Crematoria Office on the Upper Ground Floor, 6 Cheong Hang Road, Hung Hom, Kowloon, on or before July 13 this year. Enquiries can be made on 2364 5399.

     Any remains buried in the six cemeteries not exhumed as required will be cremated at a government crematorium. The ashes will be buried at Sandy Ridge Urn Cemetery or other cemeteries as may be decided by the DFEH. read more