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Social Assistance Amendment Bill [B8-2018]: public hearings
26 Feb 2020
Media Statement: Social Development Committee Welcomes Submissions Made at Public Hearings on Social Assistance Amendment Bill
Question NW662 to the Minister of Social Development
In its public hearings on the Social Assistance Amendment Bill [B2 -2018], the Portfolio Committee heard submissions from: Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office; Black Sash , Centre for ...
Social Development
Social Assistance Amendment Bill: summary of submissions; SASSA Quarter 1 - 3 performance
19 Feb 2020
The Committee Content Advisor presented a summary of the written submissions received on the Social Assistance Amendment Bill in preparation for the public hearings scheduled for the week of 24 February 2020. The Social Assistance programme was outlined in terms of the types of social grants offered and the requirements ...
Social Development
Council of Social Services Professions funding; NACCW on Child & Youth Care Worker challenges
27 Nov 2019
The South African Council of Social Services Professions (SACSSP) was invited to speak about its funding, accreditation of training and the curriculum. SACSSP said that it had to compromise on some of its mandate as a Council due to limited funding because it relied only on subscription fees. However, with ...
Social Development
Foster Care Progress Report on High Court Order; DSD 2019/20 Quarter 2 Performance
20 Nov 2019
Portfolio Committee on Social Development engagements with Department
The Department of Social Development (DSD) told the Committee that the human settlement policy was still a draft, as it had not been approved or implemented. Once it was passed, it would solve most issues pertaining to the sheltering of gender-based violence ...
Social Development
Social Assistance Amendment Bill: briefing; DSD Audit & BRRR action plan; with Deputy Minister
13 Nov 2019
The Deputy Minister encouraged the Committee to process the Social Assistance Amendment Bill as quickly as possible so that it can enable DSD to provide better social security and reach more in the fight against poverty and create security for children that are raised by their own extended families.
She ...
Social Development
Foster Care Progress Report on High Court Order
23 Oct 2019
The Committee heard from seven provinces on their Foster Care Progress Report to meet the 28 November North Gauteng High Court deadline. Overall, from a baseline of 84 225 outstanding cases at the start of September, 32 269 cases have been completed over September and the first two weeks of ...
Social Development
Social Development Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
16 Oct 2019
Available here once adopted: BRRR 2019
The Committee met to discuss and adopt the Department of Social Development’s Budget Review and Recommendations Report (BRRR), as well as make some comments on the foster care progress report that had been presented by the Department in September.
The Committee Content Advisor ...
Social Development
DSD, NDA & SASSA 2018/19 Annual Reports; with Minister
9 Oct 2019
The Minister, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, committed to direct accountability for the improvement of the Department and its entities. She said the Department had a culture of bosses and not leadership and this culture would need to change. The Department had fewer targets in the 2018/19 reporting period ...
Social Development
Social Development audit outcomes 2018/19; DSD-SASSA-SAPO financial relationship: AGSA briefing
8 Oct 2019
Auditor-General South Africa presented the audit outcomes of the Department of Social Development and its two entities, South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and National Development Agency (NDA).There has been a decline in audit outcomes over the last five years from 2014-2019. This had seen SASSA, the NDA and the ...
Social Development
DSD on turnaround strategy to address backlog in the Foster Care System & meet North Gauteng High Court deadline, with Minister
18 Sep 2019