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Children

Children are leaders of the future. Instilling in them family core values at an early stage will benefit them for life. The Moral, Civic and National Education Section of the Education Bureau has collated life events related to personal, family and social issues that children may come across in their everyday life according to different stages of learning. The lesson plans have been uploaded to the Education Bureau website (Chinese version only).

Physical health is just as essential as mental health. Fitness Programmes for Children in the LCSD website provides useful information on various areas including child bodyweight control and simple exercise programme.

Child Care

To assist parents who are unable to take care of their children temporarily because of work or other social reasons, the Social Welfare Department has all along provided subvention to the Non-governmental Organisations to operate a variety of flexible forms of child care support services to meet the different needs especially of low-income families.

There are various types of day child care services:

Child Care Centre

  • Provide full day care for children aged under 3
  • Provide activities that enhance the intellectual, physical, emotional and social development of children

Occassional Child Care Service

  • Provide occasional child care assistance on full-day, half-day or sessional basis at Child Care Centres and Kindergarten-cum- Child Care Centres for parents or cares with sudden engagements or various commitments

Extended Hours Service

  • Provide longer hours of child care assistance at CCCs and KG-cum-CCCs to meet the social needs of families and working parents

Mutual Help Child Care Centre

  • Provide a flexible, convenient and easily available form of child care service
  • Activities being carried out mainly by volunteers, neighbours and / or parents of the mutual help child care group on a mutual help and voluntary basis

Neighbourhood Support Child Care Project

  • Provide more flexible forms of day care service at the neighbourhood level
  • Promote the spirit of mutual help at the neighbourhood level in the community
  • Consist of two service components: home-based child care service and centre-based care group

Lists of the above service operators, fees and charges, and operation hours are available in this link. Leaflets on Day Child Care Services in Chinese, English and Ethnic Minority languages can be downloaded from the webpage as well.

Kindergarten-cum-Child Care Centres providing edu-care for children aged 0/2-6 are registered and monitored by the Joint Office for Kindergartens and Child Care Centres of the Education Bureau. You can find information on kindergarten-cum-child care centres from this link.