SINGAPORE: The Singapore Sport Institute (SSI), National Youth Sports Institute (NYSI) and Singapore Sports School (SSP) will be consolidated into a single entity to house all dedicated sports institutions under one umbrella.
Minister for Culture, Community, and Youth Edwin Tong announced this in parliament on Monday (Mar 10) as he laid out the ministry's spending plans for the year.
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He said that the SSP will remain as a school and retain its "brand and identity".
"This consolidation will more closely integrate Sports School with the rest of the high performance sporting ecosystem. We will also streamline touch-points with stakeholders involved throughout an athlete’s life, such as parents and NSAs (National Sports Associations)," he added.
"We will then be able to develop a centrally coordinated pathway that can provide better visibility and assurance to our athletes."
In an accompanying factsheet, the Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth (MCCY) said the move will streamline functions performed by the three institutes, into a more integrated and effective “youth-to-senior support framework” to enhance “service delivery” to athletes.
“SSP’s mission of providing academic pathways and support to student-athletes will remain unchanged,” said MCCY.
The consolidation will provide a seamless and comprehensive support system for athletes throughout their sporting journey, the ministry added.
It will also strengthen partnerships with National Sports Associations (NSAs) on athlete and pathway development.
All Team Singapore athletes will continue to receive their current level of support by NYSI and SSI following their consolidation into the new sport institute. No retrenchments in any of the organisations are expected.
"These moves will collectively strengthen and deepen the integration between the key aspects of high performance sport," said Mr Tong.
"We'll have multiple layers of support converging around the athlete, supporting them through their journey, from youth right through to senior levels."
The integration of the three institutes "will support our vision and plans for the next bound of sporting excellence, as shared by PM at National Day Rally 2024”, said MCCY.
At last year’s National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced that SSP would move its campus from Woodlands to be part of the Kallang Alive Masterplan.
Calling Kallang the new “home” for Team Singapore, he also revealed plans for new sport science and sport medicine facilities, and for national training centres for several “key" sports to be integrated there and placed under one roof for "better synergies".
Mr Tong said: "It will take a few years for the home of Team Singapore to materialise under the Kallang Alive Masterplan. But we intend to jumpstart the process now.
"Whilst we may not be able to speed up its physical redevelopment and construction, we can nonetheless start now to organise ourselves around an integrated structure, designed to push Singapore’s sporting excellence to new heights."
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Minister for Culture, Community, and Youth Edwin Tong announced this in parliament on Monday (Mar 10) as he laid out the ministry's spending plans for the year.
SSI,
He said that the SSP will remain as a school and retain its "brand and identity".
"This consolidation will more closely integrate Sports School with the rest of the high performance sporting ecosystem. We will also streamline touch-points with stakeholders involved throughout an athlete’s life, such as parents and NSAs (National Sports Associations)," he added.
"We will then be able to develop a centrally coordinated pathway that can provide better visibility and assurance to our athletes."
In an accompanying factsheet, the Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth (MCCY) said the move will streamline functions performed by the three institutes, into a more integrated and effective “youth-to-senior support framework” to enhance “service delivery” to athletes.
“SSP’s mission of providing academic pathways and support to student-athletes will remain unchanged,” said MCCY.
The consolidation will provide a seamless and comprehensive support system for athletes throughout their sporting journey, the ministry added.
It will also strengthen partnerships with National Sports Associations (NSAs) on athlete and pathway development.
All Team Singapore athletes will continue to receive their current level of support by NYSI and SSI following their consolidation into the new sport institute. No retrenchments in any of the organisations are expected.
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"These moves will collectively strengthen and deepen the integration between the key aspects of high performance sport," said Mr Tong.
"We'll have multiple layers of support converging around the athlete, supporting them through their journey, from youth right through to senior levels."
The integration of the three institutes "will support our vision and plans for the next bound of sporting excellence, as shared by PM at National Day Rally 2024”, said MCCY.
At last year’s National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced that SSP would move its campus from Woodlands to be part of the Kallang Alive Masterplan.
Calling Kallang the new “home” for Team Singapore, he also revealed plans for new sport science and sport medicine facilities, and for national training centres for several “key" sports to be integrated there and placed under one roof for "better synergies".
Mr Tong said: "It will take a few years for the home of Team Singapore to materialise under the Kallang Alive Masterplan. But we intend to jumpstart the process now.
"Whilst we may not be able to speed up its physical redevelopment and construction, we can nonetheless start now to organise ourselves around an integrated structure, designed to push Singapore’s sporting excellence to new heights."
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