The Family as a Core Value
84. In welfare planning, service delivery modes are determined by the types of service recipients. The provision of social services has not been planned from a holistic family approach. Hong Kong is a predominantly Chinese community with the family as its core value. The Government should strengthen the family by formulating social policy and providing welfare services relating to the family that meet the needs of women, children, youngsters and the elderly. I announced in my last Policy Address the establishment of a Family Council. The Council will be set up this year and will be chaired by the Chief Secretary for Administration. It will implement policies and initiatives relating to family support in the next two years. From now on, supporting and consolidating the family will be the primary consideration of our social policy and social services planning, and the family will be promoted as a core social value.
