Law Chi-kwong, Hong Kong’s Labour and Welfare secretary, visits a childcare centre in Tin Shui Wai in July 2017. Photo: David Wong
Why Hong Kong needs to take bigger steps on childcare: new standards are a return to the 1970s
- The focus of the latest policy address on children’s development, rather than simply on providing care, is commendable
- However, the proposed improvement in the carer to child ratio is a return to the standards of legislation in 1976
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Carrie Lam's policy address 2018
Law Chi-kwong, Hong Kong’s Labour and Welfare secretary, visits a childcare centre in Tin Shui Wai in July 2017. Photo: David Wong