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Review Vetting Process of Student and Kindergarten Care Service Providers and Enhance Financial Safeguards and Monitoring Mechanisms

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14 Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Education whether the Ministry plans to review the vetting process for vendors providing student and kindergarten care services in primary schools and MOE Kindergartens, including financial safeguards and monitoring mechanisms, to ensure that systematic weaknesses that enabled sudden operational disruptions by such vendors do not recur.

Mr Desmond Lee: This question has been addressed by the Ministry of Education's answer to oral Parliamentary Question Nos 3 to 6 on 2 March 2026. [Please refer to "Governance of Student Care Centres and Minimising Disruptions in Event of Abrupt Centre Closures", Official Report, 2 March 2026, Vol 96, Issue 22, Oral Answers to Questions section.]