This post was originally published as a press release on 13 January 2020.
13 January 2020 - For its 10th annual submission to the national Budget, AWARE engaged with a rich community of individuals in Singapore, pooling their ideas for a set of recommendations centred on better support for famil...
This post was originally published as a press release on 18 September 2019.
To ensure that the retirement readiness of family caregivers of older persons is not compromised by caregiving, gender-equality group AWARE recommends that caregivers who are still working are given six days of paid e...
by Yashaswini Arvind Rao, AWARE intern
From 28 February to 6 March 2019, a team of interns from AWARE visited Parliament to follow the 2019 Committee of Supply (CoS) debates.
The CoS debates occur after the National Budget is announced. They comprise an examination into each ministry’s ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 19 February 2019.
AWARE welcomes some key moves announced by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat’s Budget 2019 speech, towards expanding health care financing and acknowledging the burden of caregiving. However, we are surprised and disa...
This post was originally published as a press release on 11 January 2019.
Gender equality group AWARE submitted its ninth annual set of recommendations for the national Budget via public consultation platform REACH this morning.
Taking a wide-ranging and comprehensive approach, AWARE design...
This post was originally published by The Online Citizen on 26 February 2018.
The word of the day was “innovation”, but this year’s Budget announcements by the Minister of Finance demonstrated few plans for change. Although the Government declared its commitment to address the needs of the ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 12 January 2018.
Gender equality group AWARE submitted its eighth annual set of recommendations for the National Budget through the public consultation portal REACH on 12 January, calling for the Government to take concrete steps in endin...
This article was originally published in TODAY Voices on 14 December 2017.
AWARE supports recent calls made in the media to provide family caregivers with a caregiver allowance.
Many women who leave the workforce for family caregiving during their prime working years do not have enough for retir...
This post was originally published as a press release on 20 February 2017.
This afternoon’s Budget speech by Minister of Finance Heng Swee Keat sought to set out directions for the future economy, but could have done substantially more to tackle the significant issue of the care economy i...
