YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: INPUT SOUGHT ON REVISED AMENDMENT BILL

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: INPUT SOUGHT ON REVISED AMENDMENT BILL

• 15 January 2024
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The NCOP Committee on Health & Social Services has issued a notice calling for written submissions by 9 February 2024 on the National Youth Development Agency Amendment Bill’s ‘B’ version.

The Bill now reflects changes consolidating certain clauses in the version originally tabled. These changes were adopted by the National Assembly’s Social Development Committee on 28 November 2023 after a flurry of meetings earlier that month. Having been briefed on the Bill’s contents in November 2022, the committee allowed eleven months to go by before proceeding with public hearings.

Passed by the National Assembly on 5 December 2023 and sent to the NCOP for concurrence, among other things the Bill seeks to:

• extend the Agency’s mandate to include initiating, designing, co-ordinating, monitoring, and evaluating youth development programmes at provincial and local levels
• ensure that all youth development programmes also respond to psycho-social issues including high-risk behaviour and mental illness
• address gaps in existing governance arrangements, and
• strengthen related reporting obligations.

Please click the links below for more information:

• committee notice
• Bill’s ‘B’ version
• Bill as originally tabled
• principal statute

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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