{"id":21329,"date":"2026-09-13T00:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=21329"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:33:28","slug":"train-strengthen-sk-instead-of-abolishing-it-cayetano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/train-strengthen-sk-instead-of-abolishing-it-cayetano\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAIN, STRENGTHEN SK INSTEAD OF ABOLISHING IT \u2013 CAYETANO"},"content":{"rendered":"

SENATE Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano proposed tapping State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) and the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) to train barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) officials, saying <\/strong>the youth council should be strengthened \u2014 not abolished \u2014 through better training and capacity-building.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cayetano made the proposal on September 9, 2026 as the Senate considered amendments to Senate Bill No. 2387, which seeks to fix the term of office of barangay officials and SK members.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He proposed including SUCs and the DAP among the institutions that could train barangay and SK officials, citing DAP\u2019s experience in training local government officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0proposal\u00a0was\u00a0accepted\u00a0by\u00a0bill\u00a0sponsor\u00a0Sen.\u00a0Francis\u00a0\u201cChiz\u201d\u00a0Escudero.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cayetano said the training should also be backed by funding in the 2027 national budget so it could begin early in the officials\u2019 term.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cKung lalagay natin y\u2019ung provision na y\u2019an, which I think is a good idea, siguro gawin na natin na pondohan natin [ang peograma] for 2027. Kasi kung 2028 pa natin po-pondohan, aanhin mo pa y\u2019ung training, [kung] patapos na rin y\u2019ung term nila?\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cayetano said the SK should be strengthened by training rather than abolished over concerns about corruption. He pointed out that many times, youth leaders learn corruption from elder officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also stressed that training should involve more than lectures, pointing out that SUCs could contribute their expertise in governance while TESDA and DAP could provide skills and training for government officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a small contribution but I think if we put the word state universities or DAP, it could be more than symbolic,\u201d Cayetano said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Cayetano\u2019s proposal, Escudero introduced an amendment inserting the phrase \u201cstate colleges and universitie<\/strong>\u00a0after the reference to the Commission on Elections and before \u201cother appropriate government agencies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Senate\u00a0approved\u00a0Senate\u00a0Bill\u00a0No.\u00a02387\u00a0on\u00a0second\u00a0reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SENATE Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano proposed tapping State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) and the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) to train barangay and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk.jpg",1186,711,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-768x460.jpg",640,383,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-1024x614.jpg",640,384,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk.jpg",1186,711,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk.jpg",1186,711,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk.jpg",1186,711,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-1024x614.jpg",1024,614,true],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-720x530.jpg",720,530,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cayetano-on-sk-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"National<\/a>","tag_info":"National","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21331,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21329\/revisions\/21331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}