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2024 Taiwan Health and Welfare Report

(1,192 social workers and 184 supervisors) have been those who have not completed their immunizations
approved for subsidy nationwide. These professionals within the specified timeframe. The program
served 112,881 families, providing tailored services involves tracking and monitoring by the household
based on family and individual needs. registration, social welfare, and health administration

2. Strengthening Services for Vulnerable Families systems. When children are found to meet the
through Public-Private Partnerships: to address the conditions specified in Articles 53 and 54 of the
diverse needs of families, this initiative supports local Protection of Children and Youths Welfare and
governments in partnering with non-governmental Rights Act, they receive care visits provided by the
organizations(NGO) to expand family support local government's Department of Social Welfare. In
resources through public-private collaboration. In the 2023, a total of 1,687 such visits were conducted.
2023 fiscal year, funding was provided to 19 counties Section 3 Services for Early Intervention
and cities to support 57 NGOs in implementing
family support service programs. Additionally, 20 Families
counties and cities received funding to collaborate 1. Local governments were supervised to set 35
with 24 NGOs on child-rearing guidance services. reporting and referral centers. As of the end of
Furthermore, 19 counties and cities were funded to 2023, 34,781 children with developmental delay
expand 728 community support service locations, were reported and the nationwide reporting rate
with total subsidies exceeding NTD257.74 million. was 12.1% (Figure 9-3).
3. Continued to implement the outreach program for 2. By the end of 2023, local governments were
disadvantaged children under the age of 6: Focuses supervised to set 56 case management centers,
on 8 categories of children under the age of 6, and helped developmentally delayed children apply
including those who have moved their household for 69,388 intervention subsidies totaling NTD
registration to the household registration office and 566,250,000 (Figure 9-4).

Figure 9-3 National Reporting Rate of Developmentally Delayed Children, by Year

Reporting rate

13.40% 13.80% 14.35% 12.1%
11.30% 11.80% 10.5%

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Year
Source: SFAA

Figure 9-4 Subsidies for Early Intervention, by Year

Beneficiaries

69,388
51,973 53,814 56,382 59,865 59,980
43,112

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Year
Source: SFAA

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