2024年3月6日，新加坡文化、社區及青年部兼社會及家庭發展部高級政務次長蔡瑞隆，回復官委議員王華瀚有關殘障人士就業問題。
蔡瑞隆
文化、社區及青年部兼社會及家庭發展部高級政務次長
丹戎巴葛集選區議員
王華瀚
官委議員
以下內容為新加坡眼根據國會英文資料翻譯整理：
主席：王華瀚先生。
王華瀚先生：我要請蔡瑞隆高級政務次長澄清一個問題。我感謝高級政務次長在發言中講述了這些令人鼓舞的故事，並呼籲大家行動起來。
新加坡社會及家庭發展部或新加坡協助殘障者自立局，是否積極追蹤和接觸那些成功從庇護工場畢業到工作計劃的人？比如說在一年或兩年後，以確保他們不會在過渡後的幾年內再次陷入失業或回到庇護工場。我這樣問，是因為我和你一樣，或許也和其他議員一樣，擔心我們可能會過於執著於2030年殘疾人士就業率達到40%的目標，而無意中忽略了殘疾人士公開就業的穩定性。
蔡瑞隆先生：感謝王先生的發言。我認為有一點要注意的是，隨著去年在裕廊的包容性就業中心設立，我們向殘疾人提供的就業支持服務從一年增加到兩年，而且在需要時，就業支持服務的強度實際上也可以增加。因此，我手頭沒有關於有多少殘疾人在一年後或在不同的階段內再次失業的數字，但請放心，我們有熱情和意願真正幫助殘疾人，不僅僅是找到工作，而是真正維持和保持就業。
以下是英文質詢內容：
The Chairman: Mr Ong Hua Han.
Mr Ong Hua Han: I have a clarification for Senior Parliamentary Secretary Eric Chua. I thank Senior Parliamentary Secretary for those encouraging stories and an inspiring call to action in your speech.
Does MSF or SG Enable actively track and engage those who successfully graduate from the Sheltered Workshop-to-Work (SWW) Programme, say after one or two years, to ensure that they do not fall back into unemployment or sheltered workshops a few years post-transition? I ask this because I do share your concern and perhaps those of other Members as well, that we might become too fixated on the EMP 2030 target of 40% employment and inadvertently neglect stability of open employment of PwDs.
Mr Eric Chua: I thank Mr Ong for his clarification. I think a quick point to note is that with the launch of the Enabling Business Hub in Jurong last year, we have facilitated an increase of job support services that is provided to PwDs from one year to two years and the intensity of job support services is actually increased, where needed. So, I do not have the numbers on hand as to how many of PwDs drop out after one year and at the different milestone times, but rest assured that the passion as well as the appetite to really look at helping a PwD, not just land the job, but to really sustain and remain in employment is there.
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