The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) staged motorcades at town centres islandwide to encourage proper supervision of children.
• 30 social workers benefited from training aimed at equipping them to provide psychosocial support to more than 6,500 at-risk children who are wards of the State.
• Maxfield Park Children’s Home got a $2.8 million state-of-the-art fire alarm system.
Early Childhood Education
• $13.5 million was distributed to the Brain Builders Centre, which offers support to children zero to three years old, while $30 million was provided for the procurement of sanitation material and personal protective equipment (PPE) for schools identified to be in need.
• Early childhood sector stakeholders received COVID-19 protocols training to safeguard children.
• Schools received donation of equipment to become Covid-19 compliant.
Critical Maintenance Projects
• $446 million was provided to repair 156 schools under the Critical Maintenance Programme
Information Division
• Eighteen Sound Broadcast and Subscriber Television (STV) licences were processed and approved by the Minister and issued licensees.
• Work was advanced on the implementation of the Government of Jamaica Records and Information Management (RIM) Programme in ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
• Preparation and distribution of two RIM Newsletters to more than 250 senior government officials, RIM and management information systems (MIS) practitioners across the public sector.
