The Legislative Council's Panel on Welfare Services visited the Children's Residential Home of the Hong Kong Society for Protection of Children on Wednesday, after several children abuse cases were revealed in the care home last December and 34 staff members were arrested.

The Children's Residential Home announced in March to launch a reform project after the incidents to enhance management, strengthen training, and expand the manning ratio of the staff.

Chairman of the Panel Ben Chan Han-pan said that the care home could provide a better service under the new management.

Lawmaker Michael Tien Puk-sun, a member of the panel, suggested deploying monitor cameras with automatic systems in child care centres to identify abnormal conditions in time.

"Young carers with little experience and undertrained are more tend to explode their emotional problems on children," he said, citing a carer at Po Leung Kuk residential childcare service arrested for being suspected of abusing six toddlers on Monday.

Patrick Ip Pak-keung, the clinical associate professor of the University of Hong Kong's paediatrics and adolescent medicine department, emphasized the importance of training for carers in response to the Po Leung Kuk case.

"Monitoring may not play the most significant role compared to establishing an overall training system on child care workers' ability," he noted.