Developing Tender Specifications for Abused Child Reunification Monitoring Technology Through Expert Consultation and International Benchmarking

30 Mr Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Malik asked the Minister for Social and Family Development how the specifications for the recent tender on technology to monitor abused children reunified with their families are derived, including (i) which are the experts and stakeholders consulted and (ii) whether references are made to comparable systems deployed or trialled in other jurisdictions.

Mr Masagos Zulkifli B M M: As part of strengthening child safety and achieving better protection outcomes, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) will explore if technology can be used to improve operational effectiveness. MSF published a tender via the Infocomm Media Development Authority's Open Innovation Platform, to see if the market can provide novel solutions to the defined operational challenge. Considerations of the child's safety and the family's privacy are factors that the solution is expected to address.

We did not prescribe a particular technological solution to allow industry to surface alternative approaches. To the best of our knowledge, no other jurisdiction has developed any comparable solution.