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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 (postponed)
24 Jun 2022
The Portfolio Committee met on a virtual platform to finalise the Committee amendments to the Children’s Amendment Bill. Committee Members noted that the amendment proposals by Members were not reflected in the document received by the Committee. In addition to this, the 48-hour notice period was not given for ...
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
Department of Social Development Q1-3 2021/22 Performance Reports
1 Jun 2022
The Portfolio Committee met virtually with the Department of Social Development (DSD) to receive a report on the Department’s performance for the first three quarters of the 2021/22 financial year.
The presentation covered the performance trends for quarters 1 to 3, an overview of the Department’s five programmes -- ...
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
Children’s Amendment Bill: briefing on foster care related clauses; DSD Budget: Committee Report
11 May 2022
The meeting was postponed due to connection problems between those on the Zoom platform and those physically present at Parliament.
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill way forward; with Minister
4 May 2022
In the hybrid meeting, where most of the Members were convening in person while others connected virtually, the way forward on the Children’s Amendment Bill [B18-2020] was discussed.
The Minister said due to the diligence of the Committee, the Children’s Amendment Bill has reached an advanced stage. In November ...
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 ...