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Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill [B13-2015] and Children’s Second Amendment Bill [B14-2015]: deliberations
16 Mar 2016
The Legal Advisers from Parliament and the Department of Social Development delivered feedback on the key amendments as proposed by the Committee in both Bills. The issue of TVETs which was previously debate, was settled. as Members found the term “college” to more suitable and all encompassing. Amendments were read ...
Social Development
Children's Amendment Bills B13/2015 and B14-2013: Departmental briefing, in presence of Minister
9 Mar 2016
The Department of Social Development (DSD), with the Minister present for part of the time, took the Committee through the proposed amendments that had been suggested by the Committee, following the public hearings, for the Children's Amendment Bill B13-2015 and the Children's Second Amendment Bill B14-2015. The Department explained the ...
Social Development
Department report postponed due to absence of DG; Children's Amendment Private Member Bill; Committee Report on Northern Cape
2 Mar 2016
The Department of Social Development (DSD) was expected to give a presentation on the progress of some of the programmes from April to June 2015, but the Director General had sent an apology, since he was attending an imbizo, and the delegation was led by the Chief Financial Officer. Members ...
Arts and Culture
State of Archives & Challenges in South Africa: National Archivist briefing; Strategic Overview & Future plans
1 Mar 2016
The Committee was briefed on the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa. The National Archivist highlighted the important role which the organisation filled in records management, which included the arrangement, description and retrieval of records; the provision of training; cooperation with various stakeholders and the provision of technical ...
Social Development
South African Council for Social Service Professions training, accreditation & curriculum; Committee Report on Northern Cape Oversight Visit
24 Feb 2016
Committee Report on Northern Cape Oversight Visit [Committee Report available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The South African Council for Social Service Professions spoke to the requirements that it has set up for students who wish to register to study social work as well and adoption work. Site visits ...
Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture on 2015/16 3rd Quarter performance
23 Feb 2016
The Deparment of Arts and Culture briefed the Committee on its Third Quarter Performance Report for 2015/16. Members were informed that the presentation was only a summary of the actual Third Quarter Report. The DAC would provide the Committee with more specific performance information at a later stage. The DAC ...
Social Development
First Term Committee programme: adoption
17 Feb 2016
The Committee Members went through its “Programme on the Legislation Process” for January to March 2016, and the Committee Secretary clarified that the Committee was still communicating with the Social Work Council in relation to some of the dates. There were some outstanding resolutions still to be taken and the ...
Arts and Culture
Department of Arts and Culture on dissolution of PanSALB Board and way forward; Department of Arts and Culture on Community Art Centres & Windybrow Theatre
16 Feb 2016
The Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) briefed the Committee on the current status, legal challenges and way forward for the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). It was noted that the dissolution of the Pan South African Language Board resulted from numerous and long standing periods of crisis on ...
Arts and Culture
Key outstanding issues: committee staff briefing; First Term Committee Programme
26 Jan 2016
The Committee agreed that it had to re-evaluate the work that it had already done in order to identify what it still needed to do in 2016. The intention was to make the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) accountable to the Committee. There were issues that remained outstanding from ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill [B13-2015]; Children’s Second Amendment Bill [B14-2015]: Department response to public hearings
4 Nov 2015
The Director of Legal Services, Department of Social Development (DSD) focused on the various proposals that the DSD had picked up from the submissions at the public hearing on the two Amendment Bills (B13-2015 and B14-2015). These proposals included the need for an expanded definition of ‘sexual offences that would ...