Manila, June 10 -- Government agencies will check the status of 37,474 learners from poor families listed under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) who dropped out of school in the previous academic year.

Paula Unay, 4Ps program coordinator of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Eastern Visayas, said they will conduct extensive case management for households with children not attending school.

"Even one child that drops out of school is already alarming. We will see what interventions we can extend to those children who stopped coming to school," Unay said in an interview on Tuesday.

Among the possible reasons cited by DSWD are early pregnancy, child labor, lack of interest, and the absence of secondary...