Executive Order No. 123 reorganizing the Ministry of Social Services and Development, now referred to as Ministry of Social Welfare and Development, 30 January 1987
Annual Review of Population Law 14: 85
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12346798 Document Number: 382232
This Order reorganizes the Ministry of Social Services and Development. Among the bureaus of the Ministry are the following: "b) Bureau of Family and Community Welfare--assistance to socially disadvantaged families and communities including family planning, planning outreach programs to develop their capability in defining needs and formulating solutions as well as setting up viable community structures which bring about desired social changes..."d) Bureau of Women's Welfare--promoting women's welfare, with specific attention to the prevention or eradication of exploitations of women in any form, such as but not limited to prostitution and illegal recruitment; as well as the promotion of skills for employment and self naturalization; e) Bureau of Child and Youth Welfare--care and protection of abandoned, neglected, abused or exploited children and youth, delinquents, offenders, the disturbed, street children, victims of prostitution and others, for their social adjustment and economic self-sufficiency." The Order authorizes the Ministry to establish regional offices providing, among other things, day care centres, street children centres, centres for youth with special needs, homes for the aged, and homes for unwed mothers. Attached to the Ministry is a Population Commission, which "shall continue as the population planning and coordinating agency."