105 OG No. 1, 5 (Jan. 05, 2009); Mla. Times-Nov. 1, 2008
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 603 (1974)
created the Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) under the Office
of the President with the primary function of coordinating and
monitoring the implementation and enforcement of all laws relative to
the promotion of child and youth welfare;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No.
233 (1987) redefined the role, structure and membership of the Council
in order to enable it to more effectively carry out its
responsibilities in ensuring the cooperation of the government agencies
concerned with child and youth welfare and development and it was made
as an attached agency of the Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD);
WHEREAS, by virtue of Republic Act No. 8980
(2000), the Council shall also function as the National Early Childhood
Care and Development Coordinating Council (NECDCC) which was organized
to ensure that sustained inter-agency and multi-sectoral collaboration
from the national, provincial, city/municipal to barangay levels to
institutionalize a national system for Early Childhood Care and
Development (ECCD) and the Council/NECCDCC shall be under the Office of
the President;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 630 (2007) provides
for the transfer of the Council for the Welfare of Children/ National
Early Childhood Care and Development Coordinating Council from the
Office of the President to the Department of Social Welfare and
Development;
WHEREAS, in order to effectively oversee and
supervise the Government's efforts towards strengthening the efforts in
institutionalizing a national system for Early Childhood Care and
Development (ECCD);
WHEREAS, under Section 31, Chapter 10, Title II,
Book III of the Administrative Code of 1987, the President has the
continuing authority to reorganize the administrative structure of the
Office of the President;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA
MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order:
SECTION 1. The Council for the Welfare of
Children/National Early Childhood Care and Development Coordinating
Council is hereby transferred from the Department of Social Welfare and
Development to the Office of the President.
SECTION 2. The Chairperson
of CWC/NECCDCC shall be appointed by the
President.
SECTION 3. All orders, issuances, rules and
regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are
hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
SECTION 4. This Executive
Order shall take effect fifteen (15) days after completion of its
publication in a newspaper of general
circulation.
DONE, in the City of Manila, this 23rd
day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and
Eight.
(Sgd.) GLORIA M.
ARROYO
By the
President:
(Sgd.) EDUARDO R. ERMITAExecutive
Secretary