Govt mulls independent commission for child welfare
Law and Institutional Reform Minister Azalina Othman Said says Suhakam's children's commissioner must be given independence as an oversight body as children's issues do not only involve crime. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, January 7, 2023.
Law and Institutional Reform Minister Azalina Othman Said said the commission was significant in overseeing matters concerning the welfare of children, such as safety, education and health. “I will prepare a cabinet paper for it them to be given the freedom to stand on their own feet as an oversight body because the issue of children does not only cover crime,” she told reporters in Kota Tinggi today.
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