Children's welfare • Steps taken to improve well-being of early childhood educators

Investing in educators is investing in our children.

- Charmaine Teo Vice-President Association for Early Childhood Educators (Singapore)

We thank Forum writer Rebecca Chan for her letter "Children's well-being depends on teachers' well-being too" (April 30). As a professional body representing early childhood educators in Singapore, the Association for Early Childhood Educators (Singapore) recognises the importance of teachers' well-being.

The writer's reflections echo a central tenet of our profession: the ethical responsibility to care for oneself in order to care for others. This is centralised in the Code of Ethics for Early Childhood Professionals in Singapore (CoE), which guides educators to uphold responsibilities – their obligations not only to children, families and society, but also to themselves and their profession.