[WEBINAR] Family Conference 2020

Audrie Siew – Director, Family Support Division, Family Development Group, Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF)

Ms Audrie Siew has a degree in Law before going on to obtain her Graduate Diploma and Masters in Social Work. She started her career in the private sector, working in areas such as strategic management, organisational development and customer care.

She joined the Ministry of Social and Family Development (then, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports) in 2006 as Senior Assistant Director of Strategic Planning and Information Resources. Following this appointment, she pioneered the Vocational and Reintegration Support Unit for in-risk youth and oversaw the public education for the prevention of family violence as Senior Assistant Director of the Programme Branch in the Rehabilitation and Protection Group. She was subsequently appointed as the first ever Director of Children in Care Service in 2013, in which she oversaw the out of home care sector in Singapore and drove transformative initiatives to enable quality care for vulnerable children. While in this posting, she oversaw the operational facets in the implementation of evidence-based programmes related to the care of vulnerable children.

Appointed as the Director of Family Support Division in 2019, she oversees preventive programmes such as early-risk marriage and divorce support services for families.