Child Abuse Cases Identified through Signal for Help Programme

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang asked the Minister for Social and Family Development (a) in each of the past five years, how many children suffering from domestic abuse have been identified through the Signal for Help programme under the Break the Silence campaign; and (b) if the data is not available, whether there is an increasing or decreasing trend in the number of children identified.

Mr Masagos Zulkifli B M M: "Signal for Help" is not a programme, but a hand signal that can be used by survivors of family violence to discreetly indicate that they need help. MSF started promoting the use of the hand signal in November last year, as part of the Break the Silence campaign.

Since "Signal for Help" is not the only way which survivors of family violence make their reports, we do not track specifically the number of cases reported using the signal.