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3.1.5. Does the shelter have any responsibility for training its staff? 3.1.6. What is the shelter's staff remuneration structure? What other fringe benefit does the staff get? 3.1.7. Does the shelter encourage staff to belong or organise into trade union? 3.1.8. How would you describe job satisfaction, morale, career expectations, and commitment and staff-staff relationships? 4. CHILDREN 4.1. What are the shelter's admission criteria and procedures? 4.2. What is the policy regarding absconders? 4.3. How do children know about this shelter? 4.4. How do they come to the shelter? 4.5. How are children oriented into the shelter? 4.6. How does the shelter assist children to get official identification documents? What help if any/? 4.7. Does the shelter have any "special terminology" or the calling of 5. VOLUNTEERS. nicknames for example what do you call. .. 5.1. Does the shelter have any volunteers? 5.2. Are volunteers recruited on the basis of skills and expertise? 5.3 What is the shelter's policy regarding volunteers? B. Goals and Objectives 1. How does your shelter's organisational activity facilitate the achievement of your goals and objectives? 2. What changes have there been in your goals and objectives over the last Three-(3) years? 3. What is your understanding of the role of children living and/or working on the streets shelters in South African society? 4. Do shelters in South Africa have particular characteristics/needs? 5. What goals and standards would an "ideal shelter" for children have? 6. How would the shelter function to achieve the goals/standards? 131
C. Finances 1. What are your sources of funding? Is it Adequate? 2. Who are you accountable to? 3. What areas would you feel that needs improvement? D. Networking Does the shelter liaise with the following? Organisation/People Frequency of contact Police Social services Religious bodies Residence relatives Psychologists/Psychiatrists Hospitals/clinics Legal counsels Schools/institutions of learning Community leaders Other E. SHELTER ACTIVITIES Nature of contact 1. Routine 1.1. What is the shelter's routine during weekdays and weekends? 1.2. How is the house keeping roles kept? (Duty roster, individually, or according to what the children want) 1.4. How are the new comers helped to adjust within the shelter? 2. Discipline 2.1. How does the shelter cope with the children who break the rules? 2.2. What are the unacceptable behaviours in the shelter? 2.3. Does the shelter's policy on absconders address the reasons for absconding? 2.4. What are the procedures for children to air their individual grievances and differences? 3. Education/Health 3.1. In what ways does the shelter cater for individual educational and health needs of the children? 132
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A Study of Shelters for Street Chil
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I extend my sincer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 0 NE 1 IN
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LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Showing the
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children's homes. In 1996 the Europ
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specifically in its policies (http:
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Hosken, (2004) in an article titled
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1.5 The Purpose and Objective of th
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names of the shelters have been ren
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1.8.2 Organizationalll1eory Shelter
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Chapter Four: Data analysis. The ch
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communities posing enormous challen
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To perceive human social reality as
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Shelter's intervention/reintegratio
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2.4 Definitions The focus of the re
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enforcement officers, outreach work
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3.1 Introduction CHAPTER THREE RESE
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given to the demands of shelter pro
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views and perceptions over the topi
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3.4 The Researcher in Qualitative I
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which means children there, are sta
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paid to the recording devices. The
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esearchers need to agree or disagre
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• Staff morale was high when moti
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3.11 Ethical Considerations Babbie
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4.1 Introduction CHAPTER FOUR OATA
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4.2. Shelters Services and Programs
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children with their families where
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y the shelter's philosophy, goals,
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4.2.5 Shelter Routine and Regulatio
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4.2.6 Policy on Visitors The four s
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children played; this was done depe
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living and/or working on the street
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4.3.1 Structure and physical locati
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Apart from management of shelters,
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Regarding transparency, accountabil
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Staff expressed that children shoul
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was immediately reassuring to child
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will to choose whether to or not li
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Sangoma (traditional doctor) and I
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