Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable - Unicef

Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable children in SA
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a child’s resistance
to performing a sex
act; using a child for
pornography (s20); and
compelling a child to
witness a sex act or
displaying genitals to a
child (‘flashing’) (s21).
Investigation
and policing
of cases of
child abuse,
neglect,
exploitation
and sexual
abuse
The SAPS must receive
and act on reports
and complaints of
child abuse, deliberate
neglect, exploitation
and sexual abuse by
officials, as prescribed
by law or reported by
a child or on behalf of
a child.
Targeted beneficiaries
The CPU’s and FCS’s
role is to receive
complaints of and
investigate the
following crimes against
children (victims under
the age of 18): vi
to do grievous bodily
harm;
(only if there are
three consecutive
inter-family
incidents);
to the abuse and
exploitation of
children under the
Prevention of Family
Violence Act;
children under the
Domestic Violence
Act;
to the sexual
exploitation of
children under the
Sexual Offences Act;
FCS units/officers
within the SAPS
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