Interesting concept but it cost extra time, effort, manpower and money. Like that need to up taxpayer contributions liao. lol
Don't forget social work is non-profit, all suck money and no returns one. You can imagine the priority is low on the deck of other fires to fight lor.
The 6 months checkup is bore my employers ma, not taxpayers.
Young persons (defined <=14). If they are in school system, safe, so that leaves kids nt in pri sch yet (since pri sch is compulsory). Yearly 30k births? x 7 = 210k. Assume SGan likes to abuse kids, 1% which is 2100 cases x 2 check ups per year 4200. Alot of crimes against teenagers usually with a visit to the medical institution.
4200 visual inspection, means baru consultancy fees, probably $50. Means 2.2M? Unless we really whacking the kids left right centre, or the reports of suspected abuse exceeds 2200 per year, means ~6 per day, then i rest my case.
Assume there are a few ECDA person (70k all in comp and ben, thats 3 person) that replies to this sort of queries. If BSS send in, lets say we automate sufficiently to know child is not in school, and CPS is notified and/or automated med-check up letter is sent. If comply, ECDA fork out $50 (well, the act of sending someone down take Grab to/fro probably around there). If dont comply, then no need sit ard, go enforce action pls. It wont cost the non-profit in this case, It will also resolve the "i dun think this is serious enuff" issue.
never happen to any child ever again. Meghan’s story should be immortalised into education/documentary so that future Singaporeans will remember this incident forever and never allow any of these future abuse incidents to go unnoticed and leading to this kind of horrific tragedy.
