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Publications: 2010

  • Discussion paper on the Social Service Professions Policy. Mahery P 2010.
  • Retrieving teaching: Critical issues in curriculum, pedagogy and learning. Shalem Y & Pendlebury S 2010. Cape Town: Juta Academic.
  • A guide to the Children's Act for health professionals June 2010 (Edition 4). Mahery P, Proudlock P & Jamieson L 2010.
  • Children's Institute Annual Report 2010
    2010 Annual Report.
    Click here for the full report (pdf 627 Kb). Alternatively, click on the links below for a pdf version of individual sections of the report.
    Cover
    Contact details and acknowledgements
    Contents
    About the Children's Institute
    Management and governance
    The year in review
    Introduction to projects, commissions and tenders
    Abaqophi bakwaZisize Abakhanyayo - The Shining Recorders of Zisize - Children's Radio Project
    Caring Schools Project 
    Child-centred Analysis of Government's Budgets 
    Child Rights and Child Law for Health
    Professionals 
    Children Count - Abantwana Babalulekile Project 
    National
    Child Poverty Monitor 
    Children's Act: Promoting
    Implementation 
    Evaluation 
    Project 
    Healthy Cities Project 
    Infants and HIV/AIDS: The Fragility of Life 
    Ordinary Politics: Race and Opportunity in Contemporary South Africa 
    Social Service Practitioners Advocacy Network 
    South African Child Gauge 
    Theorising Children’s Participation: Learning Across Countries and Disciplines
    Commissions, tenders and consultancies
    Education, teaching and supervision
    Staff
    Grants and finances
    Publications
    References
  • Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town. Bray R, Gooskens I, Moses S, Khan L & Seekings J 2010. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
  • The Children's Act – providing a strong foundation for charing for vulnerable children. Jamieson L & Proudlock P 2010. In: Child and Youth Care Work, 28(2), March/April: 30-34.
  • The Social Services Professions and Occupations Bill and the Social Services Professions Policy health. Jamieson L & Proudlock P 2010. In: Child and Youth Care Work, 28(2), March/April: 20-21.
  • South African Child Gauge 2009/2010. Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury P & Smith C (eds) 2010. Children's Institute, University of Cape Town.
  • Children’s rights [4.6MB]. Mahery P & Jamieson L 2010. In: Equal treatment, September 2010: 17-19.
  • A guide to the Children’s Act for child and youth care workers: Part two. Compulsory reporting obligations and removing a child in need of care and protection. Jamieson L & Mahery P 2010. In: Child and Youth Care Work, 28(6), November/December 2010: 20-22.
  • A guide to the Children’s Act for child and youth care workers: Part one. Mahery P & Jamieson L 2010. In: Child and Youth Care Work, 28(5), September/October 2010: 16-18.
  • The Social Service Professions Policy: Recommendations from the child and youth care sector. Allsopp M & Mahery P 2010. In: Child and Youth Care Work, 28(6), November/December 2010: 24-29.
  • South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury P & Smith C (eds) 2010 Children's Institute, University of Cape Town
  • Children doing advocacy – empowerment through using media. Growing up in a time of AIDS: The Abaqophi bakwaZisize Abakhanyayo children's radio project Meintjes H 2010In: Clacherty& Associates (eds) 
  • Child and youth participation in East and Southern Africa: Taking stock and moving forward. An analytical review of the literature and five case studies. Pretoria: Regional Inter-agency Task Team on  HIV/AIDS.
  • South African Child Gauge 2009/2010: Children & health. Lake L, Berry L, Hall K, Rhode J, Kibel M, Gantcheva R, Pendlebury S & Smith C 2010. Poster-map [pdf 713 kb, print size A1] accompanying South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Recommendations for inclusion in the Budget Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Women, Children and People with Disabilities. Proudlock P & Budlender D 2010. Written submission to the Portfolio Committee on Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Parliament, October 2010.
  • Recommendations for inclusion in the Budget Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development. Proudlock P & Budlender D 2010. Written submission to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, Parliament, October 2010.
  • Recommendations for inclusion in the Budget Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Health. Proudlock P & Budlender D 2010. Written submission to the Portfolio Committee on Health, Parliament, October 2010.
  • Recommendations for inclusion in the Budget Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education. Proudlock P & Budlender D 2010. Written submission to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, Parliament, October 2010.
  • The Children's Act has commenced: Is the 2010/11 budget of the Eastern Cape provincial department of social development adequate to implement it? Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • Evidence on the challenges facing children in South Africa: Presentation of key findings of the South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 and implications for the budget. Proudlock P 2010. Written and oral presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Women, Children, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Parliament, 11 August 2010.
  • The Children's Act has commenced: Is the 2010/11 budget of the Gauteng provincial department of social development adequate to implement it? Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • Child Support Grant age extension regulations: Comment on the December 2009 regulations and the Minister’s briefing of 9 February 2010. Proudlock P 2010 Written and oral presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, Parliament, February 2010.
  • The Children's Act has commenced: Is the 2010/11 budget of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial department of social development adequate to implement it?. Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • The Children's Act has commenced: Is the 2010/11 budget of the Mpumalanga provincial department of social development adequate to implement it? Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • Children’s Institute recommendations for inclusion in the Budget Review and Recommendations Report of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development. Proudlock P 2010 Written and oral presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, Parliament, 21 October 2010.
  • Recommendations for changes to the budget. Proudlock P & Budlender D 2010. Children’s Institute & Community Agency for Social Enquiry, October 2010.
  • Child-centered analysis of government’s budgets 2010 – 2012. Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010. A profile of children living in South Africa in 2008Hall K & Wright G 2010Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 34(3), November 2010: 45-68.
  • Non-profit organisations and the Western Cape social development budget for 2010/11. Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • The Children's Act has commenced: Is the 2010/11 budget of the Western Cape provincial department of social development adequate to implement it? Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • Positive care? HIV and residential care for children in South Africa. Moses S & Meintjes H 2010. African Journal of AIDS Research 2010, 9(2): 107-115.
  • Accommodating cosmopolitanism. Pendlebury S 2010In: Kerdeman D (ed). Philosophy of Education Yearbook 2009. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois.
  • Who does the law seek to protect and from what? The application of international law on child labour in an African context. Nhenga-Chakarisa TC 2010. African Human Rights Law Journal, 10(1):161-196.
  • The Children's Act has commenced: Are the 2010/11 budgets of the provincial departments of social development adequate to implement it? Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010.
  • Time for hedgehogs as well as foxes: some temporal aspects of epistemological access to basic education. Pendlebury S 2010 In: Shalem Y & Pendlebury S (eds). Retrieving Teaching: Critical issues in curriculum, pedagogy and learning. Cape Town: Juta Academic.
  • Introduction. Shalem Y & Pendlebury S 2010. In: Shalem Y & Pendlebury S (eds). Retrieving Teaching: Critical issues in curriculum, pedagogy and learning. Cape Town: Juta Academic.
  • Partial care. Mahery P 2010. In: Davel T & Skelton A (eds) Commentary on the Children’s Act. Claremont, Cape Town: Juta Law.
  • Orphans of the AIDS epidemic: The extent, nature and circumstances of child-headed households in South Africa. Meintjes H, Hall K, Marera DH & Boulle A 2010. AIDS care, 22(1): 40-49.
  • Income poverty, unemployment and social grants. Hall K 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Recommendations [for improving child health in South Africa]. Kibel M 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • A vision for child health in South Africa. Motsoaledi A 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Addressing the social determinants of health. Lake L & Reynolds L 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Towards child- and family-friendly health services. Coetzee M 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Strengthening community-based child health services in South Africa. Mazaleni N & Bamford L 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Managing resources and building capacity in the context of child health. Saloojee H 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Basic health care services for children. Westwood A, Shung King M & Lake L 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Mental health and risk behaviour. Flisher AJ & Gevers A 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • An integrated approach to malnutrition in childhood. Hendricks M & Bourne L 2010 In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • HIV, TB and child health. Eley B  2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • The status of child health in South Africa. Sanders D, Bradshaw D & Ngongo N 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Children’s rights to health. ​​Proudlock P & Mahery P 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • Budgeting for human resources for social welfare services: The South African experience. Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010. Presented by Proudlock on behalf of Community Agency for Social Enquiry and Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town at the international Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference, organised by PEPFAR (USAID), Cape Town, 16 November 2010.
  • Key legislative developments in 2009/2010: Children’s health rights. Jamieson L, Mahery P & Seyisi-Tom K 2010. In: Kibel M, Lake L, Pendlebury S & Smith C (eds) South African Child Gauge 2009/2010.
  • CASE and CI’s recommendations for child-centred budget reform. Proudlock P & Budlender D 2010. Presented at a roundtable organised by the Children’s Institute and Community Agency for Social Enquiry, hosted at National Treasury, Pretoria, 30 September 2010.
  • Law reformers views on child participation: Strategic ally or liability? Jamieson L 2010. Presented at the third international seminar on Theorising child participation: Learning across disciplines and countries, Delhi, India 12 – 17 December 2010.
  • Theorising creative practice: Looking at children's radio and theatre work in the Abaqophi BakwaZisize Abakhanyayo project in KwaZulu-Natal, and the Kasi group of children's actors in Cape Town, South Africa. Henderson P 2010. Presented at the second international seminar on Children and young people: Citizen participation, public policy and new paradigms, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14 April 2010.
  • Shifting the paradigms of child participation in South Africa. Henderson P 2010. Presented at the second international seminar on Children and young people: Citizen participation, public policy and new paradigms, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 April 2010.
  • Child-centred analysis of government budgets: Examining the 2010/11 budget books with a view to advocacy for 2011/12 and later budgets. Budlender D & Proudlock P 2010. Presented at a roundtable organised by the Children’s Institute and Community Agency for Social Enquiry, hosted at National Treasury, Pretoria, 30 September 2010.
  • Place and mobility: New possibilities for exploring child poverty dynamics in South Africa. Hall K 2010. Presented at the conference Overcoming Inequality and Structural Poverty in South Africa: Towards inclusive growth and development, hosted by the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS); the Chronic Poverty Research Centre; the Isandla Institute; the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII); and the Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development, a joint initiative of the Presidency, Republic of South Africa, and the Delegation of the European Union, 20 – 23 September 2010.
  • Child rights and child law for health professionals. Lake L 2010. Presented at the Child Rights Education in East Africa meeting, Arusha, Tanzania, 27 October 2010.
  • A guide to the Children’s Act for health professionals. Mahery P 2010. Presented at the joint National Conference of the Nursing Education Association (NEA) and the Forum of University Nursing Deans in South Africa (FUNDISA), Cape Town, 12 October 2010.
  • Why rights? Building capacity in the context of the AIDS pandemic. Rudolph N 2010. Presented at the World Early Childhood Care and Education Conference, Moscow, Russia, 29 September 2010.
  • Children’s Act guide for South African child and youth care workers. Mahery P 2010. Presented at the 31st Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Communautés Educatives (FICE), Cape Town, 7 December 2010.Fédération Internationale des Communautés Educatives (FICE), Cape Town, 7 December 2010.
  • Accommodating children in the context of urban migration. Hall K 2010. Presented at the conference Changing Families in a Changing World, hosted by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 14 – 16 June 2010.
  • Conditioning the grant: The quest for more 'value' from the South African Child Support Grant. Hall K 2010. Presented at the India–Brazil–South Africa (IBSA) Academic Forum, Brazilia, Brazil, 12 – 13 April 2010.

Featured publications

  • GAPS IN SERVICES
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Closing the gaps in services that respond to violence against women and children

Closing the Gaps

While women who have experienced intimate partner violence need services to support their recovery, to work through their trauma and to regain their independence, many women arrive to shelters with their children. Those children are likely to have been exposed to or experienced violence. An integrated set of services is required that increases women’s and children’s access to justice, and addresses the needs of both women and children to prevent further victimisation. Little is known about what women and children want from services or how they experience them, especially in rural African communities. The rationale behind this study is to begin to understand how services are delivered in two Eastern Cape communities, and to start a dialogue about what needs to be in place to deliver culturally appropriate services for women and children who have experienced violence.

The English research report is available here, and the isiXhosa summary of the report here. Also read the accompanying publications, research brief one and research brief two.

School violence review

School violence review
Violence against children (VAC) is a significant public health problem. It is estimated that more than a billion children experience violence every year and a significant proportion of that is experienced at schools in the Global South. This systematic scoping review is aimed at analysing the nature of violence prevention interventions in and through schools that are currently underway in the Global South, and draws lessons about what we can learn from them.

Intersections research report

Intersections report
Programmes, research, and policies on VAW and VAC have historically been developed separately, without consideration of the relationship between the two problems. There is an inextricable link between the two, and interventions that focus on these problems in isolation from one other may overlook the common drivers and consequences of VAC and VAW within families and across the lifespan. This research report aims to explore the perceptions of women, men and children regarding VAW and VAC in two communities in South Africa in order to contribute towards developing an understanding of the intersections between VAC and VAW.

Reducing child poverty: A review of child poverty and the value of the Child Support Grant

Reducing Child Poverty
The South African social assistance programme is recognised worldwide for its efficiency and achievements and is widely regarded as the country’s most successful poverty alleviation strategy. The Child Support Grant (CSG) has been especially successful at reaching large numbers of poor children with relative ease and it has the best pro-poor targeting record of all the existing social grants. Its biggest weakness is that the value of the CSG, at R500 per month in 2023, is too small to protect the poorest children from hunger, malnutrition and stunting. Of the 20 million children in South Africa, just over 13 million receive the CSG every month. Yet more than seven million children remain below the food poverty line (FPL), which was R663 per person per month in 2022. In 2020, the Minister of Social Development acknowledged that the CSG amount should be reviewed because it is below the food poverty line. In 2021 the National Department of Social Development commissioned us to conduct the review. Read the full report here, or the summary here. The launch of the review enjoyed extensive media coverage.

Early Childhood Review 2024

Early Childhood Review 2024
The South African Early Childhood Review 2024 presents information on the essential components of the comprehensive package of early childhood development services. The Review includes data and commentary on over 50 carefully selected indicators on the status of children under six, as well as service delivery progress across five domains. The 2024 Review is a joint publication of Ilifa Labantwana, the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town, the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in the Presidency, the Department of Basic Education, the Grow Great Campaign, and DataDrive2030. View and download the report..

How to apply for a grant for a child that does not have a birth certificate, or if the child’s caregiver does not have an ID

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We partnered with the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) to create an easy-to-read guide that explains how to apply for a grant for a child that does not have a birth certificate, or if the child’s caregiver does not have an identity document (ID). The guide was created with the support of the South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA).

Download the English guide here, and the isiXhosa version here.

 

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