Recent Updates

LCQ20: Employment and training for persons with disabilities
08-07-2026
LCQ10: Eligibility for public benefits of residents absent from Hong Kong
08-07-2026
Speech by SLW at Pui Kiu College 16th Graduation Ceremony
03-07-2026
Remarks by SLW at media session
27-06-2026
Appointments to new-term Commission on Poverty announced
26-06-2026
Appointment to Social Workers Registration Board announced
26-06-2026
Employees Retraining (Amendment) Bill 2026 gazetted
26-06-2026
Fourth-term Human Resources Planning Commission convenes sixth meeting
22-06-2026
Remarks by SLW at media session
20-06-2026
Commission on Poverty releases Report on Impact of Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy in Hong Kong (with photos)
18-06-2026
LCQ16: Measures to promote fertility
17-06-2026
LCQ5: Child care centres and School-based After School Care Service Scheme
17-06-2026
LCQ11: Overview of admission of specific technical professionals
17-06-2026
LCQ12: Neighbourhood Support Child Care Project
17-06-2026
Sixth-term Commission on Poverty convenes seventh meeting (with photos)
11-06-2026
LCQ7: Labour importation in lift and escalator industry
10-06-2026
HKTE visits Germany and France to attract European innovation and technology talent through hackathon (with photos)
08-06-2026
Residential Care Homes (Elderly Persons) (Amendment) Regulation 2026 and Residential Care Homes (Persons with Disabilities) (Amendment) Regulation 2026 gazetted
05-06-2026
Speech by SLW at opening ceremony of OSH INNO Expo
02-06-2026
Appointments to Commission on Children announced
29-05-2026
SLW leads delegation to Beijing to exchange views on labour, social welfare and talent policies (with photos)
28-05-2026
Enhancement measures under Incentive Scheme to Encourage Provision of Residential Care Home for the Elderly Premises in New Private Developments to be made permanent
26-05-2026
SLW to visit Beijing
25-05-2026
Recipients of social security payments or Working Family Allowance to receive one-off extra allowance
22-05-2026
LCQ4: Improving employment environment for university graduates
13-05-2026
LCQ11: Strengthening regulatory oversight of employment agencies for foreign domestic helpers
13-05-2026
Government invites public views on outline of its combined fourth and fifth UNCRPD reports
11-05-2026
HKTE visits Zhejiang for attracting talent (with photos)
11-05-2026
Speech by SLW at opening ceremony of Mark Six 50th Anniversary Exhibition
30-04-2026
Applications for funding from Elder Academy Development Foundation invited
30-04-2026
Intercountry Adoption (Contracting States) (Amendment) Order 2026 gazetted
30-04-2026
LCQ2: Subsidy Scheme for Abolition of MPF Offsetting Arrangement
29-04-2026
LCQ17: Strengthening support for foster care service
29-04-2026
LCQ6: Improving the Enhanced Supplementary Labour Scheme
29-04-2026
LCQ13: Enduring powers of attorney
29-04-2026
Special meetings of the Finance Committee to examine the Estimates of Expenditure 2026-27 (Labour, Manpower Development and Retirement Protection) (Supplementary Questions)
29-04-2025
Special meetings of the Finance Committee to examine the Estimates of Expenditure 2026-27 (Welfare, Poverty Alleviation and Children) (Supplementary Questions)
29-04-2025
LCQ7: Employment support and poverty alleviation policies
22-04-2026
LCQ10: Digitalisation of JoyYou Card
22-04-2026
SLW's opening remarks on labour, manpower development and retirement protection policy areas at LegCo Finance Committee special meeting
17-04-2026
SLW's opening remarks on welfare, poverty alleviation and children policy areas tabled at LegCo Finance Committee special meeting
17-04-2026
Appointments to Lump Sum Grant Steering Committee announced
17-04-2026
HKTE visits Netherlands to attract talent (with photos)
16-04-2026
Sixth-term Commission on Poverty convenes sixth meeting
16-04-2026
Special meetings of the Finance Committee to examine the Estimates of Expenditure 2026-27 (Welfare, Poverty Alleviation and Children)
16-04-2026
Special meetings of the Finance Committee to examine the Estimates of Expenditure 2026-27 (Labour, Manpower Development and Retirement Protection)
16-04-2026
Symposium for social welfare sector focuses on strengthening awareness of safeguarding national security (with photos)
10-04-2026
Remarks by SLW at media session
04-04-2026
Remarks by SLW at media session (with photos/video)
03-04-2026
LCQ5: Industrial accidents involving lifting appliances
01-04-2026
Adjustment of income and asset limits of Working Family Allowance Scheme and arrangements for disbursement of one-off extra allowance announced
01-04-2026
LCQ19: Emergency Alarm System
01-04-2026
LCQ8: Greater Bay Area Youth Employment Scheme
01-04-2026