CHILDREN’S AMENDMENT BILL TABLED TO REGULATE ‘MICRO-PARTIAL CARE’

CHILDREN’S AMENDMENT BILL TABLED TO REGULATE ‘MICRO-PARTIAL CARE’

• 14 July 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The DA’s Bridget Masango has tabled a Children’s Amendment Bill with the intention of regulating ‘micro-partial care’. This is given the ‘deplorable conditions’ to which children are apparently often subjected when placed in temporary care for specific hours of the day or night.

According to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects, as things now stand facilities catering and temporarily caring for ‘six or less children’ do not fall under Children’s Act, 2005.

This is the eighth private member’s Bill to be tabled by the DA in 2023. To date, not a single DA Bill has progressed beyond the standard committee procedure of determining its ‘desirability’ – although some may have influenced the drafting of Bills tabled by the executive.

• Bill
• parliamentary papers announcing the Bill’s introduction (page 2)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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