SINGAPORE: Ministry care officers will continue to collaborate with society partners for at least a year to maintain ongoing security checks and checking when foster children return to their family of origin.
Masagos Zulkifli, the secretary for social and community development, stated in a written political response on Tuesday( Oct 3) that the precise length of this aid depends on the needs of the community in each case. & nbsp,
Mr. Masagos was responding to inquiries made by MP Melvin Yong( PAP – Tanjong Pagar) regarding the safeguards put in place by the & nbsp, Ministry of Social and Family Development ( MSF ) to guarantee the safety of foster children and the time frame during which it continues to monitor their well-being.
Following a string of child maltreatment cases involving baby, the foster care system came under the limelight.
One well-known incident involved a prey named Umaisyah, who was two years old, whose charred remains were discovered in metal pot. Her father, a 35-year-old Singaporean, was given an 18-and-a-half year sentence in prison and 18 stroke of the wood next quarter.
When Umaisyah was three to four months old, she was placed in foster care because her family was deemed unable to care for her and her parents had been imprisoned in a drug rehab facility. & nbsp,
She was taken back to her relatives in June 2013 and subjected to abuse until her death in March 2014. & nbsp,
For fracturing the heads of his infant daughter and his two-year-old boy, a man was given sentences of 10 years and 4 weeks in prison as well as caning in August. After MSF intervened, both kids were placed in foster care, but they were still permitted to spend the weekends with their kids.
And in July, a man was charged with killing his five-year-old girl after mistreating her for weeks by keeping her in the bathroom with her younger sibling. The Child Protective Service had placed both kids in foster care in 2014, but they were eventually put back in their father’s attention the next season.
The occurrences heard in court, according to Mr. Masagos,” do not indicate a rise in child death cases due to abuse” and occurred in various years.
The prevalence of child abuse” remains low ,” he continued.