The Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) will continue to give subsidies to poor Chinese families, including children, even as it puts greater focus on providing services such as helping parents find jobs, supporting the children’s education, and providing family counselling and emotional support.
Its new chairman Ong Ye Kung disclosed this yesterday when he took over the helm from Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.
While noting that the CDAC’s resources are limited, he told reporters subsidies will not decrease. Mr Ong added that the CDAC needed to adapt its programmes to keep pace with government policies.
He thanked Mr Gan for having led a strategic review of the CDAC’s core programmes and services last year, which saw to the creation of a new programme focusing on the elderly, and merging of its programme for low- income families and low-wage, low-skilled workers.
With the merger, more “holistic” support can be given as a case officer can help a family through its different challenges, said Mr Ong.
The CDAC will also continue to support the expansion of school-based student care centres, he added. This help is on top of that given to existing broad-based programmes such as tuition and financial assistance.
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Source: The Straits Times, 24 June 2017