Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable - Unicef

Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable children in SA
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developing and
implementing
psychosocial
programmes.
Secondary services
include:
human resource
development
(parents, caregivers
and community
development workers);
research;
monitoring and
evaluation.
The
provision
of ECD
programmes
through
partial care
facilities and
child and
youth care
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In terms of section
93(1) of the Children’s
Amendment Act, the MEC
for social development
in the provinces may
provide and fund ECD
programmes for that
province.
ECD programmes are
defined by the Children’s
Act as ‘a programme
within an early childhood
development service to
provide learning and
support appropriate to the
child’s developmental age
and stage’ (s91(3)).
ECD programmes must be
provided by a partial care
facility providing partial
care services for any
children up to schoolgoing
age, and a child
and youth care centre
which has in its care any
children up to schoolgoing
age (s93(5)).
Targeted beneficiaries
Children from birth to
school-going age, with
priority to be given to
funding of programmes:
in communities where
families lack the means
of providing proper
shelter, food and other
basic necessities;
for children with
disabilities.
Funding is provided by
the provincial DoSD.
The ECD programmes
are provided by partial
care facilities and child
and youth care centres
(s93(5)).
Partial care facilities are
facilities that provide
care for more than six
children on behalf of
their parents during
specific hours of the
day or night (s76).
A child and youth care
centre is a residential
facility (s191) that
provides therapeutic
programmes to more
than six children
outside the child’s
family environment,
in accordance with
a residential care
programme suited to
the children in the
facility, but excludes:
a partial care facility;
a drop-in centre;
a boarding school;
a school hostel;
a prison.
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