Commission on Children assembles 26th conference
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The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-ki, today (September 3) chaired the 26th conference of the Commission on Children.
At the conference, members were informed by the Hong Kong Police Force on the present efforts to safeguard kids and avoid them from victimisation, that include numerous advertising projects and the arrangement of both online and offline resources, therefore producing a safe and healthy environment for kids’s development and advancement by concentrating on the improvement of education and awareness amongst kids, moms and dads and teachers. With the development of innovation, the Internet has actually ended up being an integrated part of kids’s lives. The Police are likewise stepping up efforts to boost kids’s scams avoidance awareness in the digital age and cultivating neighborhood cooperation to make sure that kids can check out securely in the digital landscape.
The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau (CSTB) likewise informed members on their efforts in promoting the arts and cultural advancement for kids. The Government revealed the Blueprint for Arts and Culture and Creative Industries Development in November in 2015, setting out a clear vision, concepts, and tactical instructions for the future advancement of the arts, culture and innovative markets. A lot of these procedures particularly focus on kids. The CSTB, Leisure and Cultural Services Department and appropriate public organisations have actually been arranging arts celebrations and various programs, promoting arts education and training, and improving facilities and centers to foster kids’s whole-person advancement and improve their cultural self-confidence, imagination and psychological intelligence.
Members invited the numerous procedures carried out by the Government in safeguarding kids and promoting the arts and cultural advancement for them, and supplied recommendations on how to additional advance the appropriate work.