Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Singapore
Agency overview
Logo of the MCYS
Dissolved	1 November 2012
Superseding agency	Ministry of Social and Family Development Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth
Jurisdiction	Government of Singapore
Headquarters	MCYS Building, 512 Thomson Road, Singapore 298136
Employees	5,063 (Estimated FY2011) ^[1]
Annual budget	$1.83 billion SGD (Estimated FY2011)^[1]
Ministers responsible	Grace Fu, Minister Sam Tan, Minister of State Low Yen Ling, Parliamentary Secretary
Agency executives	Chan Heng Kee, Permanent Secretary Ong Toon Hui, Deputy Secretary
Child agencies	Singapore Sports Council Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura National Council of Social Service People's Association
Website	www.mcys.gov.sg

The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (Abbreviation: MCYS; Chinese: 社会发展、青年及体育部; Malay: Kementerian Pembangunan Komuniti, Belia dan Sukan) was a ministry of the Government of Singapore tasked with, from the government's point of view, building a "cohesive and resilient" society in Singapore.

On 31 July 2012, it was announced that MCYS would be restructured to become the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). Several portfolios, such as Youth Development and Sports would be shifted to another new Ministry — the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY). The change would become effective on 1 November 2012.

Agenda and goals

MCYS pursues social engineering campaigns of varying effectiveness. However, it also tries to encourage widespread youth participation, constructive social activity such as sport and volunteerism. It also tries to encourage acceptance of individual differences among youth.

MCYS has produced various campaigns to address issues such as filial piety to parents and the falling birthrate. 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 Viewer's Choice gold award and caused the page "Filial Piety" to receive over 40,000 likes on facebook.

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

1 2 "Head I: Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports" (PDF). Budget 2011: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates. Ministry of Finance, Singapore. March 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2012.

External links

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Cabinet of Singapore

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