Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
Agency overview
Formed1 September 2004 (2004-09-01)
Dissolved1 November 2012 (2012-11-01)
Superseding agency
JurisdictionGovernment of Singapore
HeadquartersMCYS Building, 512 Thomson Road, Singapore 298136
Employees5,063 (FY2011)[1]
Annual budgetS$1.83 billion (FY2011)[1]
Child agencies
Websitewww.mcys.gov.sg

The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) was a ministry of the Government of Singapore tasked with building a "cohesive and resilient" society in Singapore.

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).

Responsibilities

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

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.

Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Took office Left office Party Cabinet
Minister for Community Development (1985–2000)
S. Dhanabalan
MP for Kallang
(born 1937)		 2 January
1985		 17 February
1986		 PAP Lee K. VII
Wong Kan Seng
MP for Kuo Chuan
(born 1946)
Interim until 31 December 1986		 18 February
1986		 30 June
1991		 PAP
Lee K. VIII
Goh I
Seet Ai Mee
MP for Bukit Gombak SMC
(born 1943)
Interim		 1 July
1991		 31 August
1991		 PAP
Yeo Cheow Tong
MP for Hong Kah GRC
(born 1947)		 7 September
1991		 1 January
1994		 PAP Goh II
Abdullah Tarmugi
MP for Bedok GRC
(until 1996)
MP for East Coast GRC
(from 1997)
(born 1944)
Interim until 14 January 1996		 2 January
1994		 31 March
2000		 PAP
Goh III
Minister for Community Development and Sports (2000–2004)
Abdullah Tarmugi
MP for East Coast GRC
(born 1944)		 1 April
2000		 24 March
2002		 PAP Goh III
Goh IV
Yaacob Ibrahim
MP for Jalan Besar GRC
(born 1955)
Interim until 11 May 2003		 25 March
2002		 11 August
2004		 PAP
Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (2004–2012)
Vivian Balakrishnan
MP for Holland–Bukit Panjang GRC
(until 2006)
MP for Holland–Bukit Timah GRC
(from 2006)
(born 1961)
Interim until 31 March 2005		 12 August
2004		 20 May
2011		 PAP Lee H. I
Lee H. II
Chan Chun Sing
MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC
(born 1969)
Interim		 21 May
2011		 31 October
2012		 PAP Lee H. III

References

  1. 1 2 "Head I: Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports" (PDF). Budget 2011: Revenue and Expenditure Estimates. Ministry of Finance, Singapore. March 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
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