Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

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 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
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.

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

1. ^ ^{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