Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable - Unicef

Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable children in SA
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Child
protection
services for
children in a
child-headed
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A provincial head of
social development may
recognise a household as
a child-headed household.
An adult must be
designated to supervise
the child-headed
households.
The supervising adult must:
facilitate psychological,
social and emotional
support to all members
of the household;
ensure that all
household members
required by law to
attend school, do in fact
attend school;
assist with the
supervision of
homework;
educate the household
members on basic
health and hygiene,
and if possible, sexually
transmitted infections;
assist with the
healthcare requirements
of members of the
household, including
the supervision of the
taking of medicine and
assistance to members
with disabilities;
assist with legal
documentation when
required;
compile a domestic
chore roster;
in consultation with a
social worker, attempt
to reconnect the family
members with parents
or relatives;
Targeted beneficiaries
Children in a childheaded
household may
be recognised as a
child-headed household
if:
or caregiver of
the household is
terminally ill, has died
or has abandoned
the children in the
household;
member is available
to provide care for
the children in the
household;
of 16 has assumed
the role of caregiver
in respect of the
children in the
household;
interests of the
children for the
household to be
recognised as a childheaded
household.
The supervising adult
must be designated by
the children’s courts
or an organ of state or
an NGO determined
by the provincial head
of social development.
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