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Table 1

A chronology of the child abuse incidents

Dates	Events
18/12/2021	The HKSPC received an email alleging that some of its staff were abusing children under their care
03/01/2022	An Independent Review Committee (IRC) was formed to investigate the incidents and provide recommendations to prevent similar incidents
26/01/2022	Having reviewed the CRH's CCTV footage, the IRC discovered that some CCWs slapped children in the face, pulled their ears, and threw them onto the ground. The IRC opined that such conduct may constitute child abuse
17/03/2022	At least thirty-two CRH staff were arrested on suspicion of assaulting or neglecting forty children in their care. Twenty-seven of them were prosecuted (Leung, 2022).
31/03/2022	The HKSPC announced that the CRH's services will be fundamentally reformed over the next nine months, with “improved, additional training, expanded resources, and higher staffing ratios”
11/04/2022	The staff-to-child ratio of CRH was lowered from 1:7 to 1:5. Ninety percent of the CRH's current staff were newly recruited (Oriental Daily News, 2022 )
28/06/2023	Fifteen of the CRH staff were convicted while other criminal proceedings remain ongoing

Dates	Events
18/12/2021	The HKSPC received an email alleging that some of its staff were abusing children under their care
03/01/2022	An Independent Review Committee (IRC) was formed to investigate the incidents and provide recommendations to prevent similar incidents
26/01/2022	Having reviewed the CRH's CCTV footage, the IRC discovered that some CCWs slapped children in the face, pulled their ears, and threw them onto the ground. The IRC opined that such conduct may constitute child abuse
17/03/2022	At least thirty-two CRH staff were arrested on suspicion of assaulting or neglecting forty children in their care. Twenty-seven of them were prosecuted (Leung, 2022).
31/03/2022	The HKSPC announced that the CRH's services will be fundamentally reformed over the next nine months, with “improved, additional training, expanded resources, and higher staffing ratios”
11/04/2022	The staff-to-child ratio of CRH was lowered from 1:7 to 1:5. Ninety percent of the CRH's current staff were newly recruited (Oriental Daily News, 2022)
28/06/2023	Fifteen of the CRH staff were convicted while other criminal proceedings remain ongoing