Support Carers
What services are available to support emergencies?
You can use the search function on this page, select "Carers" and select “Emergency rescue services". ...
What units provide services to individuals and families?
The IFSCs aim at supporting and strengthening individuals and families through delivering of services under the direction of 'child-centred, family-focused and community-based.'An IFSC consists of 3 major components, namely, family resource unit, family support unit and family counselling unit. At p ...
What units provide services to the parents and relatives / carers of persons with disabilities?
At present, there are a total of 19 subvented Parents / Relatives Resource Centres (PRCs), including one centre designated for ex-mentally ill people and five of which have been set up with specialised ethnic minority (EM) units1. Its objective is to provide community support for the parents and rel ...
Are there any plans to provide living allowances to caregivers from low-income families of Persons with Disabilities to subsidize their living expenses?
The Community Care Fund launched the “Scheme on Living Allowance for Low-income Carers of Persons with Disabilities” in October 2016 with the aim of providing carers of persons with disabilities from low-income families with a living allowance to help supplement their living expenses so that persons ...
Are there any plans to provide living allowances to caregivers from low-income families to subsidize their living expenses?
The Community Care Fund (CCF) launched the “Scheme on Living Allowance for Carers of Elderly Persons from Low-income Families” in June 2014 with the aim of providing carers of elderly persons from low-income families with a living allowance to help supplement their living expenses so tha ...