These webpages provide information on current and past law reform processes in relation to laws affecting children. This includes the various drafts of the bills and regulations, current debates, and copies of submissions and related research.
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Projects
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Current Projects
- Current Projects: Overview
- Children Count
- South African Child Gauge
- Group Care for the First 1,000 Days
- Social Assistance for Orphaned Children Living with Relatives
- Safe Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Improving Early Childhood Education
- Social security – towards comprehensive protection for children
- Child Rights & Child Law Short Course for Health & Allied Professionals
- Intersections of Violence against Women and Violence against Children
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Completed Projects
- Analysing the nature and extent of child-headed households in South Africa
- Caring Schools: Schools as nodes of care and support
- Child Health Services review
- Child Survival Project
- Child-Centred Analysis of Government’s Budgets
- Children and antiretroviral treatment
- Completed Projects: Overview
- Children’s Bill Project
- Dikwankwetla – Children in Action: Facilitating children's participation in the Children's Bill
- Evaluations and case studies of the CI law-reform methodology
- Firearms injuries
- Foster care in the time of AIDS: Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash
- Southern Africa regional network on child indicators
- Growing up in a time of AIDS: Abaqophi BakwaZisize Abakhanyayo Children's Radio Project
- Health and social services to address the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children in South Africa
- Healthy cities
- Home truths: Residential care in the context of the AIDS pandemic
- Infants and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The fragility of life
- Means to Live: Evaluating the targeting of poverty alleviation for poor children and their households
- Media and the representation of children affected by HIV/AIDS
- National Child Poverty Monitor
- National Children's Forum on HIV/AIDS
- National Directory of Services for children and youth infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
- National Health Act
- National school health services policy
- Ordinary Politics: Race and opportunity in contemporary South Africa
- Piloting the Care Dependency Grant assessment tool
- Project 28: Promoting children's socio-economic rights
- Rapid appraisal of primary level health care services for HIV-positive children at public sector clinics in South Africa
- Researching and developing systems to facilitate the identification, monitoring and support of vulnerable children
- Social Assistance Act and regulations
- Social Security and Disability
- Social Service Practitioners Advocacy Network
- Theorising children’s participation: Learning across countries and across disciplines
- Western Cape Developmental Screening Programme
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Publications
- Publications: Overview
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Child Gauge
- Child Gauge: Overview
- CG 2024: Early childhood development
- Child and adolescent mental health
- CG 2020: Food and nutrition security
- CG 2019: Child and adolescent health
- CG 2018: Children, Families and the State
- CG 2017: Survive, Thrive, Transform
- CG 2016: Children and social assistance
- CG 2015: Youth and the intergenerational transmission of poverty
- CG 2014: Preventing violence against children
- CG 2013: Essential services for young children
- CG 2012: Children and inequality: Closing the gap
- CG 2010/2011: Children as citizens: Participating in social dialogue
- CG 2009/2010: Healthy children: From survival to optimal development
- CG 2008/2009: Meaningful access to basic education
- CG 2007/2008: Children’s constitutional right to social services
- CG 2006: Children and poverty
- CG 2005: Children and HIV/AIDS
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Law reform
- Law Reform: Overview
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Children's Act
- Children's Act: Overview
- Children's Act: Latest developments
- Children's Act guides
- Current debates
- Resources for Children and young people
- Children's Act: Bills & Acts
- Regulations
- Budget Monitoring
- SALRC documents
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Research and submissions
- South Africa's Progress in Realising Children's Rights: A Law Review (2014)
- Submissions to National Assembly (Submission on Children's Amendment Bill [B18 – 2020] November 2020)
- Submissions to National Assembly (Submission on Children’s Amendment Bill and Children’s Second Amendment Bill September 2015)
- Submissions to the Department of Social Development (May – November 2011)
- Submissions to National Assembly (August - September 2007)
- Submissions to Provincial Parliaments (September 2006 - March 2007) - by province
- Submissions to Provincial Parliaments (September 2006 - March 2007) - by topic
- Submissions to the Department of Social Development (June 2006)
- Submissions to National Council of Provinces (October 2005)
- Submissions to National Assembly (August 2004)
- Submissions to Department of Social Development on 12 August 2003 Bill
- Submissions to SALRC on 2001 Discussion Paper
- Child rights course
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