CHILDREN’s ACT: KEY 2022 AMENDMENTS IN FORCE

CHILDREN’s ACT: KEY 2022 AMENDMENTS IN FORCE

• 29 May 2025
• New Legislation
• SA Legal Academy

Key provisions of the 2022 Children’s Amendment Act are now in force. This is according to a recently gazetted presidential proclamation referring to the Act’s:

• section 4 (requiring the Department of Social Development to develop a quality assurance process to be applied to all child protection services and organisations)
• section 5, enabling the Minister to make regulations prescribing:
  • the powers, duties and responsibilities of the registrar of South Africa’s national child protection register, and
  • criteria for establishing and resourcing designated childcare and protection units
• section 8 (enabling a court to place a child in the care of a parent or family member deemed suitable for providing for that child’s safety and well-being)
• section 11, enabling the Minister to make regulations prescribing the ‘procedure, form and manner’ to be followed by  a social service practitioner when:
  • assessing, screening, investigating or referring a child to ‘the relevant authority’, and
  • placing a child in need of care and protection, and
• section 12, requiring:
  • the provincial department of social development or a designated child protection organisation to manage and operate a cluster foster care scheme in the prescribed manner, and
  • every designated child protection organisation to register within two years.

Please click the links below for more information:

• presidential proclamation
• 2022 amendment Act

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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