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Social Service Tribe | The Team That Makes Lives Count

Nationwide campaign “The team that makes lives count” by National Council of Social Service    Discover how a team of Social Service Professionals empowered the Lions of Singapore’s Cerebral Palsy Football Team. Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhCrsl11LAg#action=share to find out more about Social Service Tribe – and the many ways in which the team makes lives count, every day.

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Government reviewing childcare subsidy framework: Desmond Lee

SINGAPORE — The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) will be undertaking a review for early childhood education subsidies, Social and Family Development Minister Desmond Lee announced on Sunday (July 1). “This is a review we do regularly. We want to ensure three things: accessible childcare, affordable childcare, and good quality childcare, regardless of the background

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“The Moments of Life” is a new mobile application by the Singapore government to serve as a one-stop, convenient option for accessing government services and information concerning children (aged 0-6).

Registering the birth of a child has gone paperless, with the launch of a new app that also allows parents to apply for the Ministry of Social and Family Development’s Baby Bonus scheme. Called Moments of Life (Families), or MOL (Families), the app is the first to showcase the national effort to remove the hassle

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A single love that will fight for family

Everyone deserves a family – people to journey with you through the good and the bad. For the teenage girls and single parents at HCSA Dayspring, they found this family here!  Read our story here: http://bit.do/vote-for-hcsadayspring ???? In place of the former Dayspring New Life Centre, HCSA Community Services has extended its Dayspring programme with SPIN (Singapore Parents INformed, INvolved

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The Ministry of National Development rejects petition to reform public housing policies for single parents

SINGAPORE – A parliamentary petition by an MP, on behalf of seven single parents, calling for a reform of the public housing policy for single parents has been turned down. Nee Soon GRC MP Louis Ng wants the authorities to recognise unmarried parents and their children as a family nucleus, so that they can be

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Children with moderate to severe special needs to be part of Compulsory Education Act

SINGAPORE – Starting from 2019, children with moderate to severe special needs will need to attend publicly-funded schools, just like all other children in Singapore. The move to extend the Compulsory Education Act to this group of children will take effect from the Primary 1 cohort three years from now. With the change, they will

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