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South Africa’s efforts to break intergenerational cycles of harm must treat violence against women and children as interconnected crises – SA Child Gauge 2025

A presentation to the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

An easy guide drawing on the 2024 South African Child Gauge findings

The research project Responsibilities for Resilience Embedded in Street Temporalities (2REST) has produced four new policy briefs related to violence reduction, livelihoods, health and basic needs.

Young adults from South Africa and Northern Ireland, who have experienced foster care or child and youth care centres, have co-produced a documentary that shares their insights into alternative care and leaving care, and hopes for change.

The Group Care 1000 Toolkit, which we were the lead editors of, has gained recognition from the European Commission as an “excellent innovation”.

As part of our work on the commercial determinants of child health, we're calling on South African health professional associations to end commercial milk formula industry sponsorship.

Read about our impacts in 2023 and 2024, hear from our Board Chairperson and Director, and meet our team.

As civil society organisations committed to food justice, children’s health and education rights, we are alarmed by the handover of McDonald’s-branded desks to Cape Town schools, facilitated by the Minister of Basic Education.