Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Autism, Down Syndrome, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Apart from the subsidized residential services for people with disabilities, what other residential care services are available with less waiting times and relatively reasonable price?
Self-financing hostels provide alternative residential services to meet temporary and permanent housing needs of people with disabilities. It can help to release the subvented residential places for the more needy persons with disabilities through the provision of extra residential places.You can re ...
In addition to subsidized residential services for persons with disabilities and self-financing residential homes, what other government-subsidized residential services can people with disabilities apply for with less waiting time?
The SWD has bought places from private Residential Care Homes for Persons with Disabilities (RCHDs) to encourage private RCHDs to upgrade their service standards, to increase the supply of subsidised residential care places and to help the market develop more service options for persons with disabil ...
How the government provides a safety net for those who are financially unable to provide for themselves to meet their basic needs?
The CSSA Scheme provides a safety net for those who cannot support themselves financially to meet their basic needs.You can refer to the following Social Welfare Department website.Information on service scope of CSSA SchemeThe source of information is provided by the Social Welfare Department ...
Can recipients of high-level disability allowances who are employed in paid work hire carers?
The Pilot Scheme aims to provide HDA recipients in paid employment with a subsidy for hiring carers to assist them in travelling between their home and workplace (not applicable to persons who work from home) and/or taking care of their activities in the workplace (including providing care for daily ...
Has the Government set up a special needs trust service for parents/carers of people with special needs?
The Chief Executive announced in the 2017 Policy Address that the Government decided to take the lead in setting up a “special needs trust”, to provide reliable and affordable trust services.The Special Needs Trust Office (SNTO) was established in December 2018, with the Director of Social Welfare I ...