The National Youth Council (NYC) is an autonomous agency under the

Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY; ms, Kementerian Kebudayaan, Masyarakat dan Belia; ; ta, கலாசார, சமூக, இளையர்துறை அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore ...

set up by the Government of Singapore as the national co-ordinating body for youth affairs in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

Background

The National Youth Council (NYC) was established on 1 November 1989 to be the central body responsible for the planning, coordination and management of youth affairs, based on the recommendations of the Advisory Council on Youth (Feb 1988 – Feb 1989) chaired by

Lee Hsien Loong Lee Hsien Loong (; born 10 February 1952) is a Singaporean politician and former brigadier-general who has been serving as Prime Minister of Singapore and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party since 2004. He has been the Member of Par ...

and approved by then First Deputy Prime Minister

Goh Chok Tong Goh Chok Tong (; born 20 May 1941) is a Singaporean former politician who served as Prime Minister of Singapore between 1990 and 2004, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party between 1992 and 2004. He was the Member of Parliament (M ...

. It was expanded from the National Youth Coordinating Committee that was a non-executive body with no policy making powers, and would be placed under

People's Association The People's Association (PA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) of the Government of Singapore that oversees neighbourhood grassroots communities and social organisations. Established in 1960, it ...

(PA). On 1 January 2015, NYC was taken out of PA and restructured as an autonomous agency under the

(MCCY) with the addition of two operational divisions –

Outward Bound Singapore Outward Bound Singapore (Abbreviation: OBS; ms, Pusat Bina Semangat Singapura; ; ta, சிங்கப்பூர் வெளிப்புற நடவடிக்கை), formerly called Outward Bound School of Singapore (OBSS), is part ...

, which conducts national-level outdoor adventure-based education and leadership programmes, and the

Youth Corps Singapore Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. You ...

which runs youth volunteering and service leaders programmes. This would serve to strengthen NYC's national role as the central agency for youth development and engagement, broadening its reach to more diverse young people and partnering with youth sector organisations.

Edwin Tong Edwin Tong Chun Fai ( zh, s=唐振辉, p=Táng Zhènhuī; born 1969) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who has been serving as Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law concurrently since 2020. A member of the ...

, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth is the chairperson of the 16th Council. The Council comprises members from various government ministries, youth organisations, academic institutions, voluntary welfare organisations, media and private sector organisations. David Chua is the current chief executive officer of the organisation.

References

External links

National Youth Council
1989 establishments in Singapore Youth organizations established in 1989 Youth organisations based in Singapore {{Singapore-org-stub