CHILDREN’S ACT REGULATIONS: DRAFT AMENDMENTS OUT FOR COMMENT

CHILDREN’S ACT REGULATIONS: DRAFT AMENDMENTS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 27 June 2023
• Social Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Social Development has called for input by 27 July 2023 on proposed amendments to regulations under the Children’s Act, 2005, among other things intended to improve South Africa’s child protection services.

To that end, the draft amendments seek to:

• make the development of quality assurance frameworks mandatory not only in respect of the services and organisations themselves but also for adoption social workers in private practice
• determine how frequently quality assurance assessments are conducted and by whom
• prescribe the powers, functions and responsibilities of the national child protection register’s registrar
• prescribe the criteria for establishing, resourcing, monitoring and supervising designated provincial childcare and protection units
• prescribe the tasks to be performed by these units
• prescribe the procedures to be followed throughout the process of identifying and placing a child in need of care and protection by way of an alternative care order
• ensure the adequate monitoring of services provided to such children, and
• strengthen provisions in the regulations dealing with:
  • adoption
  • a child in alternative care travelling beyond the borders of South Africa, and
  • ‘cluster foster care’ and related schemes.

Please click the link below to access the document:

• Government Gazette notice 

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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