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Child protection • Consider renaming agency to reinforce its enforcement role
The Straits Times
|October 30, 2025
A nation searches its soul over the brutal abuse and killing of four-year-old Megan Khung.
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The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) has apologised and acknowledged that more could have been done, and is acting on the recommendations of an independent review panel (Review panel finds multiple breaches by agencies in Megan Khung abuse case, Oct 23).
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