Funding the Children's Act: assessing the adequacy of the 2011/12 budgets of the provincial departments of social development
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Publication
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ECCE
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
University of Cape Town, Children's Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
URL
[ private ]
Pages
61 p.
Subject
Early childhood development, Government funding, Provincial budgets, Government legislation, Policy, Implementation, Children’s health, Children’s rights, Evaluation, South Africa
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Abstract
This is our fifth annual assessment of the budgets of the nine provincial Departments of Social Development. Our aim in undertaking these assessments is to find out to what extent these departments are allocating the funds necessary to implement the Children's Act (No 38 of 2005). This paper focuses on the social development budgets. Other government departments, such as the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the provincial Departments of Education also bear responsibilities in respect of the Children's Act. However, a costing exercise (Barberton, 2006) commissioned by government revealed that Social Development would be responsible for the overwhelmingly greater part of the expenditure.
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