Glossary entries beginning with C

Public housing for seniors that combines accessible design with on-site care and social support.

A frontline Community Care role providing direct support and assistance to clients.

The principal grassroots body in a constituency, coordinating community programmes, local feedback and assistance across its area.

The official abbreviation used for the authority from April 2018 until its 2025 corporate-identity refresh.

A competency map describing the digital capabilities needed by non-IT staff across Community Care organisations.

The school curriculum area that develops values, social-emotional competencies, citizenship and a sense of responsibility to society.

A Community Care role responsible for coordinating services, operations or client support.

A fund supported by co-operative contributions and used to develop capabilities and programmes in Singapore's co-operative movement.

A grant fund helping charities strengthen governance, management, technology and organisational capabilities.

A temporary facility used during COVID-19 to care for patients who did not require acute hospital treatment.

Additional preschool-fee assistance for eligible families facing difficult financial circumstances.

Town council managing common property and municipal services for the Chua Chu Kang constituency.

Statutory or employer-provided leave that eligible parents may take to care for their children.

An orbital MRT line linking major areas around central Singapore and interchanging with other rail lines.

A Community Care role responsible for managing teams, services and care delivery.

A central portal for recording, coordinating and tracking cases across authorised users or organisations.

A digital system for managing criminal-case information, documents and workflows across justice agencies.

The office supporting the camp commandant in the administration and management of a military camp.

The officer responsible for administration, discipline and coordination within a military camp.

An organisation that provides services within Singapore's Community Care sector.

A function concerned with shaping organisational culture and improving structures, leadership, behaviour and ways of working.

A Workforce Singapore programme that helps employers reskill local workers for new occupations through structured training and salary support.

The Meteorological Service Singapore centre conducting climate science, modelling and projections for Singapore and the region.

A scholarship supporting study and careers in community care, social care or related services.

The former competition regulator before it assumed consumer-protection functions and changed its full name.

Singapore’s statutory authority for competition, consumer protection, product safety and legal metrology.

A framework defining skills standards and career pathways for support-care roles in the Community Care sector.

A former Singapore-listed real-estate investment trust focused on commercial properties, later combined into CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust.

The standard time used in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, at UTC+6:30.

A former name for ComCare Medium Term Assistance, which supported lower-income households needing a longer period of help to regain stability or self-reliance.

Technologies that capture carbon dioxide and either use it in products or store it to prevent its release into the atmosphere.

A director responsible for coordinating or leading a defined cluster of teams, institutions or operational units.

A special co-savings account for eligible children that can be used for approved healthcare, childcare and educational expenses.

Singapore's public-health authority for detecting, preventing and controlling communicable diseases, and preparing for and responding to outbreaks.

A self-help group supporting the Chinese community through education, family and social programmes.

A centrally managed budget used to fund or support government digitalisation initiatives.

A local council that supports community programmes and assistance within one of Singapore's districts.

Government vouchers that households can spend at participating heartland merchants, hawkers and supermarkets.

Singapore legislation providing for child-development co-savings and specified maternity, paternity, childcare and adoption-related leave benefits.

An organisation providing migrant domestic workers and employers with employment advice, dispute assistance, welfare support and education.

The professional head of the Singapore Armed Forces and its highest-ranking uniformed officer.

A Singapore-headquartered land-transport group operating taxis, buses, rail and other mobility businesses in multiple countries.

The Public Service approach of translating changing business needs into job competencies and using them to guide officer development.

An organisational group responsible for corporate-development and internal capability functions.

The list of cancer drug treatments covered by MediShield Life and MediSave, with treatment-specific claim and withdrawal limits.

A programme allowing MediSave use for approved outpatient treatment of covered chronic conditions.

A distributed network of servers that delivers web content from locations closer to users for better speed and resilience.

The senior executive responsible for an organisation's data strategy, governance, quality and use.

A plan setting out an employee's career goals, development priorities and intended learning or work experiences.

A standard binary format for encoding data consistently so distributed systems on different platforms can exchange it.