The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said yesterday that among the hundreds of cases of family incidents that were reported to the bureau during the first three months after the city’s anti-domestic violence law came into force in October last year, 31 were classified as domestic violence cases.
Tang Yuk Wa, who heads the bureau’s Family and Community Services Department, spoke to the media after a closed-door meeting of the Women and Children’s Affairs Council at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape.The Law on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence came into force on October 5 last year.
Tang Yuk Wa, who heads the Family and Community Services Department of the Social Welfare Bureau (IAS), briefs the media after yesterday’s closed-door meeting of the Women and Children’s Affairs Council at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape. Photo: Tony Wong
