1. PRESENTATION PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTBY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
The DoSD Context of the Children’s Bill
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2. AGENDA Vision and Mission Social Development Priorities
Strategic Goals
MTEF priorities
Way forward
Conclusion
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3. VISION
A caring and integrated system of social development services that facilitates human development and improves the quality of life
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4. MISSION
To ensure the provision of comprehensive social protection services against vulnerability and poverty within the constitutional and legislative framework, and create an enabling environment for sustainable development. The department further aims to deliver integrated, sustainable and quality services in partnership with all those committed to building a caring society
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5. Ten Point Plan Priority Areas for the Social Development Sector
Rebuilding of family, community and social relations;
An integrated poverty eradication strategy;
A Comprehensive social security system;
Eradicating violence against women and children, older persons and
other vulnerable groups
Fighting HIV/AIDS;
Youth development;
Improving accessibility to social welfare services;
Improving services to people with disabilities;
Transforming of the social development sector; and
Developing a new social development cadre of a new type.
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6. The strategic Goals of the DoSD
Improvement of service delivery
Improvement of the existing system of social security:
· Registration of eligible beneficiaries for social grants
· Improvement of the information management and payment
system for social grants
· Establishment of a national agency for social security grant
administration and payments
· Implementation of national norms and standards for social
grant administration
· Strengthening monitoring, evaluation and compliance auditing
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7. Strategic goals continued
b) Transformation of other welfare services:
Improve the quality and equity of service delivery, the capacity, and governance of the social service sector.
Review of conditions of service of social service professionals;
New funding policy for non-governmental organisations and community-based organisation;
Implementation of the recommendations of the Ministerial Committee on Abuse, Neglect and Ill-treatment of Older Persons.
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8. Strategic goals continued
c) HIV/AIDS
Mitigate the negative impact of HIV and AIDS and expanding the Home-Based Care/Community-Based Care and Support Programme.
Poverty reduction and integrated social development
Reduce poverty through integrated sustainable development, by specifically prioritising the most vulnerable groups
Social Service Infrastructure: Integration of services delivery between the different government departments
Develop an infrastructure strategy.
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9. Strategic goals continued
d) Social Integration:
Rebuild families and communities through policies and programmes empowering the young, old, disabled people, as well as women.
e) Poverty reduction and integrated development:
Reduce poverty through integrated sustainable development, by specifically prioritising the most vulnerable groups
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10. MTEF PRIORITIES
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11. Social Security, Policy and Planning
Develop, coordinate and facilitate the implementation of policies and strategies, and facilitate financial planning for social security in line with the national macro-economic goals and developmental objectives.
Relevance to Children’s Bill: right of access to social security as early intervention services, including foster care and Court ordered kinship care and care dependency grant for children with disabilities
Extension of the Child Support Grant
Increased up-take
Child Support Grant : approximately 5 million child beneficiaries on 19 August 2004
Foster care grant: child beneficiaries on 19 August 2004
Care Dependency grant : child beneficiaries on 19 August 2004
Social security Agency: Improve grant admin & service delivery
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12. Welfare Service Transformation
Facilitate transformation of developmental social welfare services to vulnerable individuals, households and communities.
Development and implementation of new policy on financial awards to NGOs and CBOs rendering welfare services
Development, costing and implementation of Welfare Services Delivery Model
Development and implementation of retention strategy for social workers and improvement of conditions Salaries of social service professionals
Capacity development programme for social service professionals
The Children’s Bill legislates for the designation and funding to designated child protection organisations and social service professionals
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13. Children, Families and Youth Development
Objective:Ensure the protection and empowerment of vulnerable children, youth and families.
Outputs for Children also provided for in the Children’s Bill:
Promotion of children’s rights
Child Protection Strategy to Combat Child abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
Computerized Child Protection register
Accurate Child Adoption Register
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14. Children, families and youth Development cont.
Manage inter country adoptions services
Render International Social Services
Develop and ensure implementation of policies and programmes to protect and promote the well being children especially those who are in difficult circumstances
Develop and ensure implementation of policies to regulate alternative care- residential care and foster care
Develop Policy to regulate the establishment and management of Early Childhood Education
Develop family policy
Ensure Capacity building
Facilitate Monitoring and evaluation
The Bill makes provision for the improvement of service delivery with regard to all of the above sub objectives
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15. Poverty Alleviation
Develop, implement and monitor strategies for poverty alleviation, undertake community development programmes and support non profit organisations:
Support existing poverty relief projects
Develop and ensure implementation of the poverty relief strategy for Social Development
Rendering registration and capacity building services to not for Profit organisations
Manage the Food emergency programme
Manage and ensure implementation of Expanded Public Works Programme especially the Home community based care and support and ECD objectives of the programme
Poverty alleviation is covered in the preventative and early intervention services chapter in the Children’s Bill
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16. HIV&Aids
Objective :Develop policies, strategies and programmes aimed at mitigation the Social impact of HIV and Aids.
- Provision of child and family welfare services, psychosocial support and statutory services.
Provision of different options of alternative care for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
Provision of nutritional support and addressing other material and psychosocial needs of people living with AIDS and their families
Strengthening and supporting the network of community based and Not For Profit organizations to facilitate the rollout of home community based care and support
Monitor, evaluate and undertake research to explore successful methods of care and support to people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS
The Bill recognizes the plight of children who are infected and affected by HIV and AIDS e.g it legislates for child headed households, testing and treatment of children for HIV/AIDS, drop in centres, partial care, kinship court ordered kinship care.
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17. LEGISLATIVE AND OTHER MANDATES
The national Department of Social Development currently
administers the following laws or part thereof:
Aged Persons Act, 1967 (Act No. 81 of 1967);
Fund-raising Act, 1978 (Act No. 107 of 1978);
Social Service Professions Act, 1978 (Act No. 110 of 1978);
Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983);
Probation Service Act, 1991 (Act No. 116 of 1991);
Prevention and Treatment of Drug Dependency Act, 1992 (Act No. 20 of 1992);
Social Assistance Act, 1992 (Act No. 59 of 1992);
Non-profit Organisations Act, 1997 (Act No. 71 of 1997);
Welfare Laws Amendment Act, 1997 (Act No. 106 of 1997);
National Development Agency Act, 1998 (Act No. 108 of 1998); and
Advisory Board on Social Development Act, 2001 (Act No. 3 of 2001).
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18. Policy and legislative mandates
In addition, the White Papers for Social Welfare (1997) and Population Policy (1998) provide the policy framework for the Department’s work.
The Constitution also informs the work of the Department. Notably,
Section 27 (1) (c) of the Constitution provides for the right of access to appropriate social assistance to those unable to support themselves and their dependants.
Section 28 (1) enshrines the rights of children with regard to appropriate care; basic nutrition; shelter; health care and social services; and detention.
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19. Intersectoral Collaboration
FOSAD Clusters
Cabinet Lekgotla
NPA in the Office on the Rights of Children in the Presidency and Premier’s offices
MINMEC
HSD
Various inter-sectoral Committees which include NGOs
Partnerships with NGOs
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20. SECTOR CHALLENGES Overriding challenges of poverty
Realisation of socio-economic rights
Putting children first
Prioritising vulnerable groups
Demographic challenges (ageing, migration, HIV & Aids
Improving social assistance
Limited/restricted coverage (Comprehensive Soc Sec)
Pressures on other welfare services
Capacity constraints
Infrastructure needs
Fragmented legal framework
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21. Way forward Costing of the Children’s Bill
Approval and implementation of the Financing Policy
Improvement of the salaries of social workers
Progressive training and employment of auxiliary social workers, child and youth care workers, assistant probation officers and community development workers to address the human resource scarcity at local level
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22. Way forward
Situational analysis of comprehensive services to children in the country
National and provincial MTEF(policy option proposals have been made to National Treasury)
The establishment of the Social Security Agency is expected to create opportunities for proper funding of welfare services
Improved intersectoral collaboration
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23. CONCLUSION
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24. THANK YOU
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