CHILDREN’S ACT REGULATIONS AMENDED

CHILDREN’S ACT REGULATIONS AMENDED

• 26 June 2024
• Social Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Social Development has gazetted amendments to the general regulations on children, among other things prescribing the criteria for establishing and resourcing childcare and protection units.

Released in draft form in June 2023 for public comment, the amendments are scheduled to come into force on 1 July 2024. The authorities concerned will then have five years to establish units ‘at provincial, district, regional and service delivery levels’.

The amendments also prescribe:

• procedures to be followed when screening and assessing children entering the child protection system, as well as when investigating related circumstances and placing such children
• criteria to be met by designated child protection organisations and provincial departments to provide for and manage ‘cluster foster care’, and
• procedures for submitting reports to the national child protection register and its management.

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