Social Security and Disability

The Children’s Institute in 2002 undertook a review of existing international assessment tools, which provided invaluable information to guide the development and design of a new practice tool for use in South Africa. The Institute, together with other academic role players, assisted the Department of Social Development in developing this new tool.

Further reading

Disability and chronic illness prevalence in children in South Africa – implications for social security provisioning
Guthrie T June 2001
Paper developed for the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive Social Security System for South Africa.

Social security policy options for people with disabilities in South Africa:
An international and comparative review
Guthrie T, Sait W, Proudlock P, Linders P, Gcaza S, Thompson P & Van Noordwyk N 2001
Commissioned by the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive Social Security System for South Africa.