China News Service, April 11. According to Hong Kong's "Sing Tao Daily" report, Law Chi-kwong, director of the Hong Kong Bureau of Labour and Welfare, said on the 10th that next year, 16 elderly homes and other welfare facilities will be built with the lottery fund.
Law Zhiguang said that next year will use the lottery fund to build a number of welfare facilities, including 16 elderly homes, adding about 2,800 new places, which is the second largest number in the past four years. He also pointed out that in the past four years, subsidized places The number increased from about 27,000 to over 32,000, an increase of about 17%.
He pointed out that in the future, the main development of residential care homes for the elderly will be dominated by contract residential homes, supplemented by residential service vouchers and the buy-slot system.
In the future, if the overall planning can provide more residential land, more contract residential homes can be built, and private institutions will openly bid for operation, and a certain proportion of them will be used as non-subsidized residential places, which can reduce the need for institutions to rent places in the private market and build more residential institutions. Scale and quality of the private market.
Law Chi-kwong also pointed out that the SAR government is enacting legislation to increase the minimum service requirements of private institutions, and will set a timetable to ban residential care homes with poor quality.