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Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
11 May 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Social Development
Audio: Children’s Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
The Committee began public hearings on the Children’s Amendment Bill. Eight organisations made oral submissions.
Stakeholders highlighted challenges relating to Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres registration, availability of sites, and challenges rural-based ECD centres encounter.
Real ...
Social Development
SASSA & NDA 2021/22 Annual Performance Plans; with Minister and Deputy Minister
5 May 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Social Development
The Committee met virtually to receive a briefing to consider the Strategic Plans, the Annual Performance Plans (APP), and the Budget Votes of the National Development Agency (NDA) and the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA).
The SASSA is an agency ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development 2021/2022 APP; with Minister & AGSA Input
4 May 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Social Development
The purpose of this virtual meeting was for the Committee to receive a briefing by the Auditor-General of South Africa on the Annual Performance Plan of the Department of Social Development and its entities. The Committee also considered the Department’s Strategic ...
Social Development
Foster Care court order progress; SASSA & NDA 2020/21 Quarter 3 performance; with Minister & Deputy
16 Apr 2021
Video: PC Social 16 April 2021
Audio: Foster Care court order progress; SASSA & NDA 2020/21 Quarter 3 Performance
The National Department of Social Development presented the Foster Care Progress Report on the implementation of the Northern Gauteng High Court order. The presentation covered progress on the comprehensive National legal ...
Social Development
AGSA on Special COVID-19 Audit Reports; DSD 2020/21 Quarter 3 performance; Children’s A/B: discussion on contested ECD clauses
17 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Social Development, 17 March 2021
COVID Audit Report 2
COVID Audit Report 1
The Committee convened in a virtual meeting to be briefed by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) on the special reports on COVID-19, to consider the third term quarterly performance report ...
Basic Education
ECD Migration from DSD to DBE: progress report with Ministers
16 Mar 2021
With both Ministers present, a joint virtual technical progress report was given of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programme migration from the Department of Social Development (DSD) to the Department of Basic Education (DBE) that requires all nine provinces to be on board and compliant with the function shifts as ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: Pre-introduction consultation process; Temporary Disability Grant re-applications & overcrowding at SASSA; with Ministers
5 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Social Development, 05 March 2021
03 Feb 2021: Temporary disability grant reapplications & overcrowding at SASSA: update with Minister
20 Jan 2021: Lapsed temporary disability grants, reapplications, overcrowding at SASSA offices: with Minister
In this virtual meeting, the Department of Social Development responded to questions raised ...
Social Development
Implications of Children’s Amendment Bill : SALGA briefing; Content Advisor on public participation
24 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Social Development, 24 February 2021
In this virtual meeting, the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) commented that the municipal mandate for the Children’s Amendment Bill involves municipalities having a developmental and constitutional mandate to promote Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes. This mandate lies in the ...
Social Development
Implications of Children’s Amendment Bill in relation to adoption services: DSD briefing, with Minister
17 Feb 2021
The Portfolio Committee held a vitual meeting to receive a briefing from the Department of Social Development on the implications of the Children’s Amendment Bill in relation to adoption services.
The presentation from the Department of Social Development (DSD) shared the costs of this, as well as the Department’s intentions ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Viability of amalgamated municipalities in North West & Gauteng; with Deputy Minister
2 Dec 2020
Video: PC COGTA 2 December 2020
The Committee was briefed virtually by North West on Tlokwe and Ventersdorp Municipalities amalgamation into the new JB Marks Local Municipality and by Gauteng on the Randfontein and Westonaria Municipalities merge into the new Rand West City Local Municipality.
Committee members observed poor support ...