7 Mar 2024獨媒#3114
社福機構2025/26年度削2%撥款 119個中小型團體免減
Amid a huge fiscal deficit, the Government is seeking to cut spending. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said in the Budget that each item of operating expenditure would have to be reduced by 1% annually for three consecutive years starting from 2024/25. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said that the 177 subvented non-governmental organisations under the Social Welfare Department would not need to make the 1% cut in the coming year. In the following year, 2025/26, they would have to make a 2% cut, limited to large organisations receiving more than $50 million in annual funding.
巨額財赤下，政府設法削減開支，財政司司長陳茂波在預算案中表示，2024/25年度起連續三個年度每項經營開支需削減1%。勞工及福利局局長孫玉菡表示，社署轄下177間獲資助的非政府機構，來年度不需削減1%，而再下一年度即2025/26年度則需削2%，並只限年度撥款獲5,000萬以上的大型機構。
25 Jan 2024獨媒#2875
周大福慈善晚宴惹道德爭議 梁毓偉刪「小孩展品」圖 稱以為是「演員」
The government frequently stresses government-business-community cooperation to tackle intergenerational poverty. Chow Tai Fook held a “Chow Tai Fook Corporate Social Solutions” charity banquet yesterday to promote the community project “Fook-style Units”, with several senior officials in attendance. However, one of the event’s “exhibits” sparked controversy after LIHKG users discovered that Leung Yuk-wai had posted photographs and text on Facebook showing a child doing homework in a simulated cramped home environment, with a bunk bed beside the desk. Online users questioned whether children from low-income families were being treated like “animals in a zoo” for wealthy people to view. InMedia contacted Leung Yuk-wai for comment. He initially asked, “Did they get a child to be an exhibit?”, but after seeing his photograph, admitted that the child “seemed to be an exhibit”. He said he had thought the person was an “actor” and was unsure whether the child was genuinely from a low-income family.
政府不時強調「政商民」合作解決跨代貧窮問題，昨日周大福就舉辦「周大福企業社會方案」慈善晚宴，推廣社區項目「福式單位」，有多名高官出席。不過活動其中一個「展品」引起爭議，事緣連登討論登發現梁毓偉在 Facebook 貼出打卡圖文，有一名小朋友在模擬家居斗室環境做功課，書枱旁邊擺放碌架床。網民質疑基層小朋友尤如「動物園」被一眾富人參觀。《獨媒》向梁毓偉查詢，他起初反問「有搵小朋友做展品咩？」，看到自己的相片後承認「好似係展品」，他稱以為對方是「演員」，不肯定對方是否真正來自基層。
11 Sept 2023獨媒#8351
李家超：各界齊心善後令人感動 有潛力成為國際慈善中心
Chief Executive Lee Ka-chiu attended an international charity forum organised by the Jockey Club this morning. In his speech, he referred to the extreme conditions Hong Kong had experienced recently, saying that flooding and landslides had blocked roads, but that the concerted efforts across society in dealing with the aftermath were moving. He said volunteers, civil servants and Care Teams had quickly assisted affected people and helped clear the streets. The community’s enthusiasm and generosity were encouraging, and Hong Kong had the potential to become an international charity centre.
行政長官李家超今早出席賽馬會主辦的國際慈善論壇，他在致辭時提到本港近日遭遇的極端情況，指水浸及山泥傾瀉，導致道路阻塞，但各界齊心善後令人感動。他指一眾義工、公務員及關愛隊等，迅速援助受影響人士，及協助清理街道，對社區的熱心、慷慨精神令人振奮，有潛力成為國際慈善中心。
29 May 2023獨媒#6509
鄭雁雄盼社福界宏揚愛國愛港主流價值觀
The launch ceremony for the “Hong Kong Social Welfare Sector Heart-to-Heart Action”, organised under the leadership of Election Committee constituency legislator Kwan Ho-ming, was held this morning. Those delivering speeches included Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Liu Zheng and Director of the Liaison Office Zheng Yanxiong. Zheng’s speech was the longest among the four speakers. He hoped the social welfare sector would promote mainstream values centred on patriotism and love for Hong Kong and compatible with the “one country, two systems” principle.
由選委界議員管浩鳴牽頭舉辦的「香港社福界心連心大行動」，今早舉行成立典禮啓動儀式。典禮致辭者包括行政長官李家超、國家民政部副部長柳拯及中聯辦主任鄭雁雄，當中鄭雁雄的致辭為四人中篇幅最長，他期望社福界能宏揚以愛國愛港為核心，與「一國兩制」方針相適應的主流價值觀。
23 May 2023獨媒#6478
管浩鳴牽頭「心連心大行動」 不直接做服務 望關愛隊打聽獨老下落
As Hong Kong opens a new chapter, the social welfare sector is also adopting the “new chapter” slogan. Legislative Council member Kwan Ho-ming said he would lead the establishment of the “Heart-to-Heart Action” next Monday, with an inauguration ceremony to be held that day. He will serve as the action’s chairman, while Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han will attend. On the action’s role, Kwan said it would in principle not participate directly in service provision to avoid competing with other social welfare organisations, and would mainly focus on elderly-care issues. He said its goal was to showcase the social welfare sector’s “new image” internationally.
香港開新篇，連社福界亦打出「開新篇」旗號，立法會議員管浩鳴透露下周一他會牽頭成立「心連心大行動」，當日舉行成立典禮，由他出任「大行動」主席，屆時將有特首李家超和勞福局長孫玉菡出席。至於「大行動」有何定位？管浩鳴表示，為了避免與其他社福機構競爭，原則上不會直接參與服務，主要關注安老議題。他又稱，目標是向國際展示社福界的「新形象」 。
17 Apr 2023獨媒#6317
83名內地醫護人員抵港 醫管局稱會逐步擴充大灣區「交流」計劃
Amid a shortage of medical staff in Hong Kong, the Hospital Authority announced the Greater Bay Area medical talent exchange programme last year to “recruit talent”. Seventy-three doctors and nurses from Guangdong arrived in Hong Kong this afternoon, bringing the total to 83 including the medical personnel who arrived last week. Hospital Authority Chairman Henry Fan Hung-ling and Chief Executive Tony Pat Sing Ko welcomed them at the West Kowloon High Speed Rail station. Fan said the second batch, comprising about 100 mainland nurses, is expected to arrive in Hong Kong by the end of the year. He also said the programme would be gradually expanded, with an estimated 300 mainland nurses arriving in Hong Kong within two years.
香港醫療人手緊張，醫管局去年公布大灣區醫療人才交流計劃「搶人才」，73名廣東省醫生及護士今午抵港，連同上周已抵港的醫護，合共83人。醫管局主席范鴻齡、行政總裁高拔陞到西九龍高鐵站迎接。范鴻齡表示，預計第二批約100名內地護士年底至港，又稱會逐步擴充計劃，預計兩年內會有300名內地護士來港。
3 Dec 2022獨媒#5792
社福界2,000人學習二十大 參加者需交500字後感
The Labour and Welfare Bureau, the Social Work Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR, the Social Welfare Department and the Hong Kong Social Welfare Sector Joint Anti-epidemic Action jointly held a sharing session today to conclude the Study Course on Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The organisers said that more than 1,500 people attended in person and online, and that participants were required to write a 500-character reflection after the session.
勞工及福利局、中聯辦社工部、社會福利署及香港社福界聯合抗疫大行動共同舉辦的「社福界學習貫徹中共二十大精神研習班」今日舉行學習總結分享會，大會表示現場及線上總逾1,500人參加，出席的參加者會後需寫500字學習體會。
5 Jul 2022明報#2177
香港女障協進會因無人接棒將解散 服務至11月底
The Hong Kong Women with Disabilities Association announced on July 4 that no members had stood for election to the executive committee. A majority of members voted to approve its dissolution, while the current executive committee will remain in office until the end of the year.
香港女障協進會7月4日宣布沒有會員參選執委，大多數會員投票通過解散，現屆執委留任至年底。
5 Jul 2022獨媒#2181
勞福局辦社福界「習講話精神」座談會 狄志遠：交流吓唔係壞事
President Xi Jinping visited Hong Kong earlier and delivered an important speech. The Labour and Welfare Bureau will hold an online seminar on Friday (8th) on “studying, publicising and implementing the spirit of President Xi Jinping’s important speech” for the social welfare sector. The Social Welfare Department has written to all subsidised non-governmental organisations in Hong Kong, urging them to relay the contents to their executive committee members and staff. The seminar is jointly organised by the Labour and Welfare Bureau, the Social Work Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong League XI, the Hong Kong Social Welfare Sector Joint Anti-Epidemic Action and the Centre for Social Service Development Research. Tik Chi-yuen, a social welfare sector Legislative Council member and one of the seminar’s guests, said: “Looking at it positively, those exchanges, focusing on some issues that society cares about, are not a bad thing.”
國家主席習近平早前訪港，發表重要講話。勞福局周五（8日）將舉行「社福界學習宣傳貫徹習近平主席重要講話精神」線上座談會。社會福利署向全港受資助的非政府機構發信，呼籲機構向執委及職員轉述內容。「習講話精神」座談會由勞工及福利局、中央政府駐港聯絡辦社會工作部、香港社福界聯合抗疫大行動及社會服務發展研究中心聯合舉辦。社福界立法會議員狄志遠為座談會嘉賓之一，他認為，「正面嚟睇，嗰啲交流，集中講一啲社會關心嘅問題都唔係壞事。」
29 Mar 2022獨媒#1890
社署資助機構4.1起實行「疫苗通行證」 有機構要求無打針員工「自動離職」
The Social Welfare Department announced last month that subsidised organisations and units in the social welfare sector would implement a Vaccine Pass measure. From April 1, all employees working for funded or subsidised organisations or units must have received at least one vaccine dose. Those who are unvaccinated and do not hold a doctor’s certificate will be unable to continue working. The Hong Kong Social Workers’ General Union conducted a survey of the sector, with more than half of respondents saying their organisations required employees who did not meet the vaccination requirements to ‘resign voluntarily’; more than 70 people said they would lose their jobs because they were unvaccinated. The Social Welfare Department told InMedia that it was an ‘undisputed fact’ that vaccination reduced severe illness and death, and that organisations should handle their own human resources matters. The Labour Department said employers and employees should clarify responsibility and compensation arrangements regarding ‘voluntary resignation’ to avoid unnecessary disputes.
社會福利署上月宣布推行社福界資助單位「疫苗通行證」措施，4月1日起所有在資助或津助的機構／單位工作的員工，須至少接種一劑疫苗，如沒打針又不持有醫生證明書，將不能繼續工作。社會工作者總工會（社總）向業界進行問卷調查，多於一半人表示機構要求不符合接種疫苗規定的員工「自願離職」，超過70人因無打針或將失去工作。社署回覆《獨媒》表示，接種疫苗減少重症及死亡是「不爭的事實」，而機構應自行處理人力資源事宜，勞工處則回覆表示僱傭雙方應就「自願離職」釐清責任及補償安排，避免不必要的爭議。
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