South African Child Gauge 2016
Delany A, Jehoma S & Lake L (eds) 2016
Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town
The South African Child Gauge is the only publication in the country that provides an annual snap-shot of the status of South Africa’s children.
It is published by the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, to track South Africa’s progress towards realising children’s rights.
The 2016 issue issue focuses on the theme of Children and Social Assistance.
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Cover
Back cover
Acknowledgements
Broad overview
Contents
List of boxes, cases, figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Foreword
Francie Lund, Chair of the former Lund Committee on Child and Family Support
Reflections
Bathabile Dlamini, Minister of Social Development
PART ONE: CHILDREN AND LAW REFORM
Legislative developments in 2015/2016
Stefanie Röhrs, Lizette Berry, Lori Lake and Maylene Shung-King
PART TWO: CHILDREN AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
Children and social assistance: An introduction
Aislinn Delany, Alejandro Grinspun and Evelyne Nyokangi
Children’s contexts: Household living arrangements, poverty and care
Katharine Hall and Debbie Budlender
The evolution of the Child Support Grant
Leila Patel and Sophie Plagerson
No small change: The multiple impacts of the Child Support Grant on child and adolescent well-being
Alejandro Grinspun
Common concerns and misconceptions: What does the evidence say?
Michell Mpike, Gemma Wright, Stefanie Röhrs, Zaheera Mohamed and Lindi Mzankomo
Implementation of social grants: Improving delivery and increasing access
Aislinn Delany and Selwyn Jehoma
Social assistance for orphaned children living with family
Katharine Hall and Sipho Sibanda
Expanding social assistance for children: Considering policy proposals
Aislinn Delany and Paula Proudlock
Increasing the amount of the Child Support Grant
Debbie Budlender
Universalisation of the Child Support Grant
Selwyn Jehoma and Eleonora Guarnieri
Pregnancy and maternal support for the protection of mothers and young children
Alex van den Heever
Extending the Child Support Grant to youth aged 21 years in education and training
Maureen Mogotsi and Engenas Senona
Introducing the Child Support Grant top-up for orphaned children living with family members
Katharine Hall and Ann Skelton
Weighing up the policy proposals: Some considerations
Paula Proudlock
Social assistance for children: Looking back, thinking forward
Mastoera Sadan and Aislinn Delany
PART THREE: CHILDREN COUNT – THE NUMBERS
Demography of South Africa’s children
Katharine Hall and Winnie Sambu
Income poverty, unemployment and social grants
Katharine Hall and Winnie Sambu
Child Health
Katharine Hall, Nadine Nannan and Winnie Sambu
Children’s access to education
Katharine Hall
Children’s access to housing
Katharine Hall
Children’s access to services
Katharine Hall and Winnie Sambu
Technical notes on the data sources
About the South African Child Gauge