Facilitate the provision of quality social welfare services to children, including those in need of care and protection, by: . Ensuring the implementation of the Children's Act (2005) over the MTEF period; . Implementing the strategy to expand national adoption services by the end of March 2013; . Improving the child protection system through implementing the national surveillance study on child abuse and neglect (phase 2) by the end of March 2013 . Improving alternative care to children through implementing protocols and guidelines on foster care in all provinces by the end of March 2013; . Implementing phase 1 of the transformation strategy on child and youth care centres by March 2012; . Expand access to early childhood development and partial care services for children in the 0-4 age cohort by March 2012; . Monitoring the policy framework and guidelines for statutory services for child headed households and children living on the streets, to ensure implementation by the end of March 2013.