Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports

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The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (abbreviation: MCYS) was a ministry of the Singapore Government tasked with building a "cohesive and resilient" society in Singapore.^{[citation needed]}

On 1 November 2012, the MCYS was restructured and became the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF). Several portfolios such as Youth Development and Sports was shifted to a new Ministry, the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY).^{[citation needed]}

Responsibilities[]

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The 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[]

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• "Filial Piety" in 2010
• "A Girl's Hope" in 2010
• "Beautifully Imperfect" in 2009
• "Family" in 2008
• "Excuses" in 2008

Ministers[]

The Ministry was previously led by the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, who was appointed as part of the Cabinet of Singapore.

Minister	Start of Term	End of Term	Political Party	Ref.
Minister for Community Development
S. Dhanabalan	1985	1986	People's Action Party
Wong Kan Seng	18 February 1986	31 December 1986
Seet Ai Mee	1986	1991
Yeo Cheow Tong	1991	1994
Abdullah Tarmugi	2 January 1994 (Acting)	14 January 1996
	15 January 1996	31 March 2000
Minister for Community Development and Sports
Abdullah Tarmugi	1 April 2000	24 March 2002	People's Action Party
Yaacob Ibrahim	25 March 2002 (Acting)	11 May 2003
	12 May 2003	11 August 2004
Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports
Vivian Balakrishnan	12 August 2004 (Acting)	31 March 2005	People's Action Party
	1 April 2005	20 May 2011
Chan Chun Sing	21 May 2011 (Acting)	31 October 2012

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Singapore Government Directory Interactive — Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports