Presbyterian Community Services

Presbyterian Community Services (PCS) is a social service agency registered with the Commissioner of Charities and a member of the National Council of Social Service.  We have 27 centres spanning across the island.

PCS is one of the foremost providers of pre-school education and has a wide range of services such as infant care, childcare, special needs, special needs school, residential home for teenage girls, youth-at-risk programme, eldercare services, emergency relief scheme and other services to meet the multi-generational needs of the population.

PCS is an appointed partner operator for children services and centre of specialisation in integrated childcare for children with special needs. PCS is also a foundation member of St. Luke’s Hospital.

In 2017, PCS, together with Grace Orchard School (GOS), embarked on a pilot project to train girls from GOS to be Teacher Childcare Aides.  This project won the MOE-NCSS Innovation Award in 2018. With the positive outcome and good feedback received from this pilot project, PCS went further to plan for a scale up of this training to reach out to the Post-18 group of girls who have left special schools and are employable, to offer them a new training / vocational pathway - Educarer Aide Training (ECAT). PCS believes that with the structured training, the girls will be well-equipped for the early childhood care tasks, enabling them to work and contribute meaningfully at the childcare centres.

In July 2019, PCS was awarded the 5th Enabling Employers Award (Innovative Project category) by SG Enable, in view of the potential employment possibilities for girls with mild intellectual disability after the ECAT.