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Social Development (WCPP)
Western Cape Adjustments Appropriation Bill: Social Development
28 Nov 2022
The Select Committee was briefed by the Department of Social Development (DSD) on Vote 7 in the schedule to the Western Cape’s Adjustment Appropriation Bill B3-2022.
The DSD reported receiving additional funds based on the adjusted budget. These funds would go towards purchasing additional vehicles for disabled persons, as ...
Social Development (WCPP)
Children’s Amendment Bill: Final Mandate
11 Nov 2022
The Standing Committee considered and adopted its Final Mandate on the Children’s Amendment Bill [B18B-2020]. The Committee recommended that the House confers on the Western Cape’s delegation in the NCOP the authority to support the Bill.
Social Development (WCPP)
Western Cape Department of Social Development Annual Report 2021/2022
18 Oct 2022
Department of Social Development
The Committee engaged with the Western Cape Department of Social Development on its 2021/22 Annual Report. Members complimented the Department for achieving a clean audit. A wide-ranging discussion took place, covering the following topics: child poverty and hunger, and child-headed households; procurement of specialised vehicles ...
Health and Wellness (WCPP)
Social determinants that apply pressure to the health system & mental health challenges: Department of Health & Department of Social Development Briefing
23 Sep 2022
The Standing Committee on Health in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament convened in a hybrid meeting for a briefing by the Department of Health and the Department of Social Development on the programmes in place to address the social determinants that apply pressure to the health system, specifically in ...
Social Development (WCPP)
Briefing by the the National Department of Social Development on the Children’s Amendment Bill
21 Sep 2022
Children's Amendment Bill (B18-2020)
The Committee was briefed by a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces and the national Department of Social Development (DSD) on the Children’s Amendment Bill. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the Amendment Bill to the provincial parliament for its processes to ...
Social Development (WCPP)
Funding of Old Age Homes in the province; Plans to deal with loan sharks that are keeping SASSA beneficiary cards & update on Social Relief Grant
6 Sep 2022
The Committee was briefed by the Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) on the funding of old age homes in the province and by the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) on how it dealt with loan sharks preying on social grant beneficiaries. The Committee was also briefed on ...
Social Development (WCPP)
DSD on monitoring, evaluation and budget allocation of NGOs and service centres in the province
23 Aug 2022
The Provincial Department of Social Development briefed the Committee on the procedures involved in monitoring and assisting 1 142 non-profit organisations which were funded by the department.
The Department, within its available budgetary resources, funded the provision of statutory social welfare services and approved priority social welfare and community ...
Health and Wellness (WCPP)
Provincial Department of Health briefing on name change & briefing by Department on integration of City of Cape Town facilities into the Department of Health
12 Aug 2022
The Standing Committee was briefed on the name change of the Western Cape Department of Health to the “Department of Health and Wellness” and on the integration of the City of Cape Town clinics by the Western Cape Department of Health. It was also briefed on establishing a tuberculosis ...
Social Development (WCPP)
SASSA Western Cape on application process, qualifying, and assessment criteria for R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant
10 May 2022
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Western Cape Regional Office briefed the Committee on the application process, qualifying and assessment criteria for the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant and progress made by the Western Cape in paying out the grant.
With the lifting of the Disaster ...
Social Development (WCPP)
Western Cape Appropriation Bill: Social Development
17 Mar 2022
The Committee met with the Department of Social Development to deliberate and adopt Vote 7: Social Development in the schedule to the Western Cape Appropriation Bill for the 2021/22 financial year.
The Committee wanted to know what partnerships the Department had formed in the private sector to ...