| Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Singapore | |
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| 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 | |
| www.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 vigorous social engineering campaigns of varying effectiveness and is partially responsible as the source of posters for indoctrinative campaigns in Singaporean schools and in the wider communities, encouraging traditional and conservative "Asian values". 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 Viwer's Choice gold award and caused the page "Filial Piety" to receive over 40,000 likes on facebook.
The incumbent acting minister is MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC, Chan Chun Sing.
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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".