The Society for Community Organization (SoCO) said on Sunday that the culprit was children not having proper desks and having to do homework on makeshift surfaces such as beds and chairs.

“The government should consider introducing a system that will provide extra points not only for newborns but also for families with children, whether it is temporary housing, light public housing or public housing,” said SoCO deputy director Sze Lai-shan.

“We think this should apply to people 12 and under. “If this can be expanded to ages 18 and under, that would be even better.”

The survey was conducted between September and November and surveyed 503 children aged 7 to 18 from low-income families, 234 of whom had a spine check. More than 80 percent of them lived with their families in subdivided flats of approximately 140 square meters.

Spine checks revealed that 44.4 percent of the children had improper shoulders, 75.2 percent failed the cervical inclination angle test, 42.3 percent failed the pelvic inclination angle test, and 5.6 percent were suspected of having scoliosis. .