Infant Care Standards in Singapore

- NUH and NTUC First Campus launched its partnership to enhance infants' holistic development and enhance training programmes for local infant care teachers
- areas such as the health, nutrition, and language and mental development of the child will be covered
- this partnership is one of the 2 inititatives to raise local infant care standards

- 27 out of 68 NTUC First Campus pre-school centres offer infant care services
- may double to 50 by 2010 year end
- infancy period is the age where the child develops the most, lots of changes occur from day to day and good or bad habits are inculcated as well
- diseases in adulthood do often have their roots in childhood and even in early infancy