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This chapter from the South African Child Gauge 2018 reviews national policies supporting families as well as other services in South Africa that seek to strengthen families and address the needs of vulnerable families in the country. The chapter presents a national policy framework for supporting families, including the guiding principles of family support policies in South Africa and the range of support services available through these policies. The chapter defines those policies designed to provide universal support services to families - including parental…
Save the Children South Africa commissioned a mapping of the children’s sector in South Africa as of June 2014 to provide an information platform to inform its strategic reflection and planning process. The brief for the mapping exercise, the results of which are documented in this paper, was to work within Save the Children’s global strategic framework of priority rights and breakthrough outcomes to identify:
- Catalytic issues impacting on children’s constitutional rights to health and nutrition, education, protection and child rights governance;
- Who the various…
This report identifies key communications challenges faced by experts and advocates as they seek to elevate support for public policies that will best serve the developmental needs of all children in South Africa. The report provides an initial set of strategic recommendations for how best to communicate the expert story in ways that expand public understandings of early childhood development and build support for policies and programs that leverage this connection.
The first phase of research for the project was conducted between November 2015 and April 2016 and involved three tracks…
In the face of international pressure and local concern regarding the repercussions of the AIDS pandemic for children in South Africa, as well as the review underway of both social assistance and children’s legislation in the country, there is much debate regarding appropriate social security provision for children in the context of HIV/AIDS. To date, the focus has primarily been on exploring different mechanisms for the provision of cash grants to children who have been orphaned. This includes encouragement by the State of the use of the formal foster care system to address the poverty-…