The whole Children’s Act 38 of 2010 (as amended by Act 41 of 2007) came into operation on 1 April 2010. The regulations (and forms) also came into operation on the same day.
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- 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
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- Theorising children’s participation: Learning across countries and across disciplines
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Child Gauge
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- 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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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)
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