From co-saving plans to regional work programmes: PM Wong promises to seriously consider youth's policy proposals
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SINGAPORE - A co-savings plan to help lower-income youth here accumulate adequate emergency savings. Programmes for more young people to gain regional work experience and exposure. Even a national standard for recyclability labelling to raise recycling rateFrom co-saving plans to regional work programmes: PM Wong promises to seriously consider youth's policy proposals
SINGAPORE - A co-savings plan to help lower-income youth here accumulate adequate emergency savings. Programmes for more young people to gain regional work experience and exposure. Even a national standard for recyclability labelling to raise recycling rates while reducing bin contamination. These were among the draft policy recommendations put forward by 120 young people at the inaugural Youth Policy Forum on Aug 24 after nine months of research, consultations and discussions, including with relevant stakeholders and government agencies. On its part, the Government will seriously consider these proposals and how they can be implemented, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said during a dialogue with some 1,000 young people at the forum. He emphasised that this does not mean every recommendation will be accepted, nor should that be the basis for judging the work that has gone into them. Proposals may not be approved for a range of reasons, such as being very hard to implement or requiring a lot of resources that are not currently available, said PM Wong. Read more