Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable - Unicef

Department of Social Development
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Cluster foster care is
essentially a group care
setting, where the group
foster care arrangements
are managed under one
umbrella management
structure that is beholden
to the requirements in the
Act, and which will be able
to access support provided
in terms of the Act.
The purposes of a foster
care placement are to: liii
provide the child
with a safe and caring
environment,
either as a temporary
measure, so as to
promote reunification
with the child’s parents,
or
as a permanent measure
through which to connect
the child to other safe
and nurturing family
relationships intended to
last a lifetime.
Placement in
a child and
youth care
centre
The court may place
a child in a child and
youth care centre that
provides a residential care
programme suited to the
child’s needs.
A child and youth care
centre is a facility that
provides residential
care to more than six
children outside the
child’s family environment,
in accordance with
a residential care
programme suited for the
children in the facility. It
excludes a partial care
facility, a drop-in centre, a
boarding school, a school
hostel or a prison. liv
Targeted beneficiaries
A child who has no
parents or caregiver
A child who has a
parent or caregiver but
that person is unable or
unsuitable to care for the
child
Child and youth
care centres must
be established and
run by the provincial
government (section
195 of the Children’s
Act).
However, municipalities
and accredited
organisations (NGOs)
may also establish
and operate a child
and youth care centre,
provided it is registered
and complies with the
provisions of the Act.
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