Things are getting a bit complicated. A Mothership.sg reader submitted these two photos:

This was a screenshot from the Singapore Government directory - SGDI.

The second screenshot was taken from a press release by the Marriage Convention 2010.

A Google search also reveals a family counsellor from Focus on the Family (FOTF) by the name of Chong Cheh Hoon giving relationship tips on Her World magazine in a 2011 article.

It appears that this woman, Chong, who used to work in FOTF, is now working in the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).

Hanky panky between Focus on the Family and MSF?

If our assumption is correct, there are questions for MSF to answer to assuage the doubts of the public that there is no hanky panky behind-the-scenes:

1) Is MSF's Family and Education Support Division wholly in charge of the relationship education programme?

2) If the Division is the one that approves the programme, is Chong involved in the procurement process?

3) If Chong is not involved in the procurement process, what is Chong's role in the programme?

But for all we know, this is just a coincidence. Nothing to see here. Move along now.

Background:

A Facebook post by 17-year-old Hwa Chong Institute student Agatha Tan criticising the relationship education programme went viral on social media on Oct. 7, 2014.

This has led to the Ministry of Education to clarify that the relationship education programme, called It's Uncomplicated, is under the purview of the Ministry of Social and Family Development.

Focus on the Family is a MOE-approved vendor that conducts sexuality education programmes. However, the relationship education programme is approved by MSF.

Two days after the uproar, the Ministry of Education has said that the workshops would cease by end-2014.

MSF has also clarified that they conduct audits on the workshops and students evaluations are taken into consideration, according to a news report by Channel News Asia published on Oct. 10, 2014.

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