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Customised training for disabled in Singapore

Ong Dai Lin

SINGAPORE: Instead of setting up Continuing Education and Training (CET) centres for the disabled, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will work with agencies and voluntary welfare organisations to provide customised training for the disabled.

Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Manpower) Hawazi Daipi said current CET centres and other Workforce Development Authority approved training organisations are open to anybody who seeks training.

For the disabled, the government will focus on understanding their needs. For example, the Infocomm Technology Apprenticeship Training Programme launched last July was supported by the Infocomm Development Authority and the Society for the Physically Disabled.

More than 290 disabled people have been hired through the Open Door Fund set up to encourage companies to employ the disabled. More than 170 were retained for at least three months.

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When: 09/3/2010