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Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri has urged communities to report suspected illegal childcare and daycare centres to authorities to help prevent child abuse and deaths.

She said the Welfare Department relies on public tip-offs to identify unregistered centres and will take immediate action, including closure orders, against operators found violating regulations.

Nancy also announced that registered centres will be issued official plaques to help parents identify legitimate facilities.

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00:00Excellency President, please give her a big round of applause for the launching of the program title Reconclued Tourism.
00:08What about another child death in Child Cash Centre and so that also still got to be unregistered?
00:16Because it's happening like every other woman?
00:18Exactly, exactly.
00:19But the only thing I can say that we are actually, even now our welfare department,
00:25they are going down doing some surprise visits to make sure that all are registered.
00:32But sometimes there's an oversight on those who are not registered because we do not know their existence.
00:37Unless we get the response or input from the neighbours or from whoever,
00:44if they suspiciously feel that there is such an institution which is not registered, they will have to inform us.
00:53This is where we are talking about whole-of-community approach. We need that support.
00:58Because we also wouldn't know unless the people give us some indication that, you know, there is an unregistered child
01:08centre.
01:09The thing is, we have already done our part in terms of having that plug to show that, okay, this
01:14is a registered one.
01:16But, I mean, some parents, maybe they forgot about it because they need to send the children and make sure
01:22it's a safe place.
01:23When they go there, it looks like it's a safe place.
01:26So, this is creating some sort of a dilemma among the parents.
01:33But, on our part, we are, it is an ongoing process for us to keep going down.
01:39Now, this is, they are still doing their surprise visits, okay.
01:43So, once they discover that, they will take action immediately and even ask them to close down.
01:57You
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