the Minister of Education as the president, and the membership of each of the undersecretaries of the Ministries of Social Affairs, Education, Health, Justice, Culture and Information, Youth Welfare in addition to three specialists in the childhood affairs. The Committee will extend proposals pertaining to strategic plans of the childhood. It will also extend support to the governmental authorities concerned with childhood. It will support researches and studies pertaining to the care of childhood. It will also set regulations organizing the establishment of the non-governmental societies for the care of childhood. Moreover it will evaluate plans and policies pertaining to the affairs of childhood. --MORE 1440 Local Time 1140 GMT