- Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
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Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Singapore Logo of the MCYS Agency overview Jurisdiction Government of Singapore Headquarters MCYS Building, 512 Thomson Road, Singapore 298136 Employees 1206(Estimated FY2011) [1] Annual budget $1.83 billion SGD (Estimated FY2011)[1] Ministers responsible Chan Chun Sing, Acting Minister
Halimah Yacob, Minister of State
Sam Tan Chin Siong, Senior Parliamentary SecretaryAgency executives Chan Heng Kee, Permanent Secretary
Ong Toon Hui, Deputy SecretaryChild agencies Singapore Sports Council
Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura
National Council of Social Service
People's AssociationWebsite mcys.gov.sg The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (Abbreviation: MCYS; Chinese: 社会发展、青年与体育部; Malay: Kementerian Pembangunan Komuniti, Belia dan Sukan) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore tasked with, from the government's point of view, building a "cohesive and resilient" society in Singapore.
The MCYS often pursues vigourous top-down social engineering campaigns of varying effectiveness and is partially responsible as the source of posters for top-down indoctrinative campaigns in Singaporean schools and in the wider communities, encouraging traditional and conservative "Asian values" and neoconfucianism, prizing deference to the state and authority over individual liberty. However, it also tries to encourage widespread youth participation constructive social activity such as sport or the arts, a reversal from Singaporean education and civic policy from the 1960s to 1980s that de-emphasised the humanities and sport participation in favour of technical pursuits like science. It also tries to encourage acceptance of individual differences among youth.
Its attempts at interventionist policies in increasing Singapore's falling birth rate or encouraging marriage led to production of various media campaigns. Its three-minute short film promoting filial piety, in using more subtle and indirect artistic techniques compared to previous decades' campaigns, found local critical success and won MediaCorp's Viwer's Choice gold award and caused the page "Filial Piety" to receive over 40,000 likes on facebook.
The incumbent minister is MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC, Chan Chun Sing.
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Agenda and goals
The MCYS seeks to make Singaporeans "socially responsible individuals", create "inspired and committed Youth" and is a ministry explicitly devoted towards family values ("strong and stable families"). It also seeks to create a "caring and active community" and to promote healthy, sportful lifestyles. It wishes to promote integration of people with disabilities into wider society, and prevent "youths-at-risk" from falling into juvenile delinquency. It also tries to encourage seniors to practice "active aging".
National Campaigns
- "Filial Piety" in 2010
- "A Girl's Hope" in 2010
- "Beautifully Imperfect" in 2009
- "Family" in 2008
- "Excuses" in 2008
References
- ^ a b "Head I: Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports" (PDF). Budget 2011: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates. Ministry of Finance. 2011-03. http://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/budget_2011/revenue_expenditure/attachment/15%20MCYS%20EE2011.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
External links
- Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports Official website
- Singapore Government Directory Interactive — Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
- MCYS Singapore Official Facebook Page
- MCYS Singapore Official Flickr Channel
- MCYS Singapore Official Youtube Channel
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