Hoo Sian Chin, the director of Lighthouse Educare, has been charged with cheating the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) into disbursing S$14,000 in childcare subsidies. She is also accused of falsifying children's attendance records at the preschool.

Singaporean pre-schools will now report all child abuse cases directly to the anti-violence hotline, bypassing the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA), as announced by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).