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 All orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.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.


By the President:

(Sgd.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA
Executive Secretary