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Children’s Amendment Bill: adoption, with Deputy Minister
6 Jul 2022
Committee Report on Children’s Amendment Bill
The Committee approved the 16 clauses it retained in the Children’s Amendment Bill [B18B-2020] with Committee amendments. The DA, FF+, ACDP and EFF objected to the B-Bill.
The Committee Report on the Bill with the following headings was adopted:
• Context and background; ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: consideration and adoption of A-list
29 Jun 2022
In this meeting, the Parliamentary Legal Advisor presented a redrafted version of the A-list of the Committee's proposed amendments. Decisions about Sections 21 and 24 had been settled on in the previous meeting. However, due to an incorrect draft presented to the Committee, it had agreed to defer the ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: Committee amendments consideration
22 Jun 2022
In this meeting, the Parliamentary Legal Advisor presented the A-list of the Committee's proposed amendments. However, at the end of this meeting, the Committee deferred the adoption of the A-list to 24 June 2022. This was within its timeframe to adopt the Bill on 29 June when the proposed ...
Social Development
Fundraising Amendment Bill: DSD response to public submissions; with Minister
8 Jun 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development met on a virtual platform to receive a briefing from its Content Advisor on the analysis of a submission received on the Fundraising Amendment Bill [B29 – 2020]. The Department of Social Development also presented its response to a submission received on the Fundraising ...
Social Development
New regulations on the payment of SRD Grant: DSD & SASSA briefing, with Ministry
3 Jun 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Committee was briefed by officials from the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), regarding the new regulations on the payment of the Social Relief Distress (SRD) grant and other social grants.
The Minister of ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: deliberations
25 May 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Parliamentary Legal Advisor informed the Committee had taken a number of decisions in terms of the Bill. First, it had decided to exclude provisions relating to early childhood development. Later, it decided to exclude all provisions that were not directly related to foster care ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: deliberations
18 May 2022
DSD: Foster Care Clauses Presentation
The Committee had previously agreed to amend the introduced Bill in order to address the concerns raised in the North Gauteng High Court Order. The Committee took a decision that all of those clauses which did not relate to foster care would be kept ...
Social Development
DSD, NDA & SASSA 2022/23 Annual Performance Plans, incl AGSA input; with Minister and Deputy Minister
20 Apr 2022
The Portfolio Committee met with officials from the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA), the Department of Social Development and its entities -- the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the National Development Agency (NDA) -- on a virtual platform. The purpose of the meeting was ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: clause-by-clause deliberations
1 Apr 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Committee began clause-by-clause deliberations on the Children’s Amendment Bill. Although the Committee had received extensive and broad public feedback on the Bill, it intended to focus on making the amendments that were necessary for compliance with the court order which ...
Social Development
Dr Rosenberg presentation on Baby Savers; Children’s Amendment Bill: Motion of desirability
30 Mar 2022
Portfolio Committee on Social Development met on a virtual meeting platform to receive a presentation from an expert researcher on Baby Savers, Dr Whitney Rosenberg, and to consider and adopt the Motion of Desirability on the Children's Amendment Bill. Present in the meeting were the Committee’s legal advisors, who ...