This post came out from The Straits Times (19 November
2016)
Children placed in foster care include those who have been
abandoned, neglected, ill-treated, or whose parents cannot care for them due to
reasons such as illness or imprisonment. The Ministry of Social and Family
Development (MSF) will be calling for bids from voluntary welfare organisations
to run the agency which can provide fostering services for up to 100 vulnerable
children, said Ms Audrie Siew, director of Children in Care Service in MSF's
Rehabilitation and Protection Group.
Services will include recruiting and screening
foster parents, and providing support, through home visits and support-group
meetings. As of September, 439 out of about 1,100 vulnerable children were
placed in foster care. Another 100 are cared for by relatives and 662 are in
children's homes.
MCYC Community Services Society and Boys' Town are
the existing two fostering agencies that were set up last year, under an $8
million, three-year pilot scheme announced in 2014. There are about 150
children under these agencies, while the rest are under MSF.
Thoughts anyone?
Yours,
Something Small Thinking Big
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