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DSD Annual Report2008/09
Draft presentation Select Committee on Social
Services 3 November 2009
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Presentation outline

• Part A
• Overview
• Part B
• Programme Performance 2008/09
• Part C
• Budget and Expenditure report 2008/09
• Auditor Generals Report
• Challenges
• Part D
• Legislative Framework 2008/09

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Part AOverview
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DSD Strategic Perspective

• The department has premised its strategies and
  services on two platforms
• services that deal with assisting society to deal
  with what they are currently experiencing as a
  result of poverty and social dislocation and
• strategies to deal with factors that give rise to
  and sustain poverty, inequality and social
  discord.

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Vision
A caring and integrated system of social
development services that facilitates human
development and improves the quality of life.
Mission
To ensure the provision of comprehensive social
protection services against vulnerability and
poverty within the constitutional and legislative
framework, and create enabling environment for
sustainable development. The Department further
aims to deliver integrated, sustainable and
quality services, in partnership with all those
committed to building a caring society.
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Strategic Priorities

• Tackling child poverty.
• Tackling adult and older persons poverty.
• Youth development.
• Social cohesion.
• Civil society support and strengthening of
  communities.
• Governance and institutional development.
• Regional and international solidarity and
  development.

"Building a Caring Society. Together"
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PROGRAMMES AND MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES

• Programme 1 Administration
• Provide for policy and strategic direction by the
  ministry and top management and for overall
  management and support services to the
  Department.
• Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security
• Ensure the development of norms and standards,
  facilitate financial and economic planning,
  monitor compliance with social assistance policy
  prescripts for the provision of a comprehensive
  system of social security, and facilitate the
  payment of social assistance grants to eligible
  households.
• Programme 3 Policy Development, Review and
  Implementation Support for Welfare Services
• Create an enabling environment for the delivery
  and accessibility of integrated developmental
  social welfare services in partnership with all
  relevant stakeholders.

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PROGRAMMES AND MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES Cont.

• Programme 4 Community Development
• Develop, monitor and facilitate the
  implementation of appropriate policies,
  strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening
  the potential of communities, including youth, to
  sustain and advance their livelihoods and further
  human development.
• Programme 5 Strategy and Governance
• Lead the strategic management component of the
  Department foster operational efficiency through
  improved alignment between mandates, strategies
  and institutional capacity provide strategic
  guidance on social policy development,
  coordination and evaluation facilitate and
  develop the Departments strategic plan oversee
  all entities, agencies and boards reporting to
  the Department and coordinate monitoring and
  evaluation across the sector.

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Part B Programme Performance
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Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security

• Programme Objective
• Ensure the development of social security
  policies, monitor compliance with social
  assistance policy prescripts for the provision of
  a comprehensive system of social security, and
  facilitate the payment of social assistance
  grants to eligible households.
• Social Insurance
• Completed a draft policy on contributory social
  insurance which was subjected to review by
  international panel of social security experts
  and consulted with civil society on the policy.
• Completed a Concept paper on the Institutional
  Framework for Social Security
• Completed four research reports on improving
  access to economic opportunities by Social
  Assistance beneficiary households as follows
• Feasibility of a work seeker's grant.
• Feasibility of wage subsidies.
• Assessment of institutional framework to link
  beneficiaries to economic opportunities.
• Profiling of unemployed beneficiaries.

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Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security

• Social Insurance (cont)
• The Southern African sub-regional liaison office
  of the International Social Security Association
  was opened in the Department in September 2008.
• A steering committee comprising representatives
  from South Africa, Zambia and Swaziland was
  appointed, and its Terms of Reference agreed on.
  The office hosted an international seminar on
  extending access to social security on the
  African continent.

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Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security

• Social Assistance
• Childrens Benefits
• Completed a study on attaching conditions to the
  extension of the Child Support Grant (CSG) to
  children between 15 and 17 years of age.
• The CSG was extended to children until their 15th
  birthday with effect from 1st January 2009.
• The number of CSG recipients grew by 7 from
  8,189,975 in March 2008 to 8,765,354 by March
  2009 and the CSG was increased from R 210 to R
  230 per month.
• The Foster Care Grant was increased from 454,199
  to 474,759 and this represent an annual growth
  rate of about 5.
• The Care Dependency grant saw an annual growth
  rate of 5, with an increase in beneficiary
  numbers from 102,292 to 107,065 by March 2009.
  The care dependency grant income threshold for
  adults was increased from R1,962 to 2,296 per
  month.

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Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security

• Disability Benefits
• A policy on Social Assistance for people with
  chronic diseases was developed and taken for
  consultation in the Social Cluster Task Team and
  several stakeholders.
• Older Persons Benefits
• The Social Assistance Act has been amended to
  equalise the qualifying age for age old grants
  between male and female applicants. This will
  enable males to receive old age grant from the
  age of 60 years in a phased manner during the
  current MTEF period. This change has brought over
  70 000 men aged 63 years and above onto the
  social grant system. By March 2009, over
  2,390,543 million elderly people were in receipt
  of the old age grant.
• The old age grant was adjusted from R 940 to R
  960 per month.
• The care dependency income threshold for adults
  was increased from R 1 962 to R 2 296 per month
  and the value of the assets was increased from R
  338 000 to R 460 800 per year for unmarried
  persons and doubled for married persons.
• The provision of Social Relief of Distress
• The Social Relief of Distress budget was
  increased by R500 million from R124 million to
  R624 million to shield the poor from undue
  hardships caused by rising food prices (caused by
  the economic recession).

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Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security

• Provision of social assistance benefits to
  Vulnerable groups
• The programmes key achievements include
• The extension through SASSA, of the Child Support
  Grant and the Amendment of the Social Assistance
  Act to enable men to qualify for the age old
  grant from the age of 60.
• The opening of the Southern African Liaison
  Office of the International Social Security
  Association in the Department was also a key
  achievement.
• Social Security transfers and administration
• Over 13 million South Africans now access the
  social grants system. The table below indicates
  the total number of recipients over the last
  three years
• Grant March 2007 March 2008 March 2009
• Old Age pension 2,193m 2,229 m 2,390
  m
• Disability 1,427m 1,408 m
  1,268 m
• Foster Care 394,194 454,199
  474,759
• Care Dependency 98,096 102,292
  107,065
• Child support grant 7,863m 8,189 m
  8,765 m
• War Veterans grant 2,340 1924 1500

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Child Care and Protection Services
• New Child Care Legislation
• Children's Act regulations, norms and standards
  were approved by the NCOP in March 2009.
• Finalisation of draft Intersectoral National
  Policy Framework
• The Minister approved the five year National
  Surveillance Study on child abuse, neglect and
  exploitation
• The Canadian International Development Agency
  (CIDA) approved funding to the value of R35
  million and the Child Welfare League of Canada
  will serve as the technical expert on the
  national surveillance study on child abuse.
• Early childhood development (ECD)
• Department implemented the National Integrated
  Plan for Early Childhood Development (NIPECD) in
  partnership with key stakeholders, and this
  promoted a common understanding of the programme.
  
• The Sector registered approximately 13,736 ECD
  sites in 2008/09
• There is on average an ECD site for every 455
  children in the country.
• Paid per diem subsidy for approximately 411,203
  children registered in ECD.

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Drug and Substance Abuse
• T he Prevention of and Treatment for Substance
  Abuse Bill was passed by Parliament in November
  2008
• DSD started with the implementation of Minimum
  Norms and Standards for in patience Treatment in
  Nine treatment centres located in provinces of
  Mpumalanga, North-west, KwaZulu- Natal and
  Eastern Cape provinces
• The Mini Drug Master plan was approved and
  distributed for implementation
• Capacity building workshops on the implementation
  of the National Drug Master Plan was held in
  Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal and Eastern provinces
• Two hundred (200) service providers were trained
  in Limpopo and Gauteng provinces
• Twenty members of western Cape Provincial Forum
  on Substance Abuse were trained on the
  development of the Mini Drug Master Plan
• In Mpumalanga, 350 members of the substance abuse
  forum were trained on the implementation of the
  National Drug Master Plan.
• The drug prevention programme, Ke Moja, reached
  over 20 million young people through radio, cell
  phones and other media

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Services to People with Disabilities
• Completed the Implementation strategy for policy
  on Disability
• Developed and piloted a training manual on the
  policy on the Management and Transformation on
  Protective workshop nationally (in 17 protective
  workshop).
• Developed and piloted the implementation
  (Transformation) plan for the policy in KZN,WC,
  NW, GP and EC
• Piloted Phases 2 and 3 of the Minimum Standards
  for Residential Facilities in 4 facilities in the
  Eastern Cape, and the implementation of Phase
  1of the Policy and Minimum Standards on
  Residential Facilities was rolled out in all
  provinces
• The policy on Rehabilitation and Community-based
  services for people with disabilities was edited
  and finalised.

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Service Standards
• Implemented Minimum Norms and Standards for
  in-patient treatment centres in 9 treatment
  centres in Mpumalanga, North-west, KZN, Free
  State and Eastern Cape
• Finalised Consultation (s) on draft Minimum Norms
  and Standard for out-patient Treatment centres.
• The business plan for the implementation of
  Phases 2 and 3 of the development of norms and
  standards for social welfare services were
  developed and popularised within the structures
  of the Department and in all provinces
• Established programme management structures
  nationally and provincially for the
  implementation of the norms and standards
  project.
• Trained 500 stakeholders on the integrated
  Service delivery Model and generic norms and
  standards
• Developed Quality assurance framework,
  implementation strategy and training manual
  framework on quality assurance .

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Services to Older Persons
• South African Plan of Action on Ageing developed
• Tabled Regulations of the Older Persons Act in
  Parliament
• Finalised Draft South African plan of Action on
  Ageing
• Established coordinating structures to ensure
  collaborative service delivery to Older Persons
• DSD created partnerships with the Department of
  Sports and Recreation, Health and Western Cape
  Social Development to promote Golden Games in
  order to promote a healthy lifestyle among elders
• A protocol to manage elder persons abuse was
  developed to ensure that reported cases of Older
  Persons abuse are followed up appropriately
• Developed and piloted Costing templates in
  Gauteng province

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Social Service Provider Management and Support
• Assessed all National Councils and conducted site
  visits in order to ensure that they comply with
  the Public Finance Management Act and the Policy
  on Financial Awards to Service Providers and as a
  result, R8,547m was spent on financial support t
  at least 20 organisations
• Draft Social Services Professions Bill was taken
  for consultation and finalised with the South
  African Council for Social Services (SACSSP) and
  the Professional Boards for Social Work and Child
  and Youth Care.
• Developed and a Draft Policy on Social Services
  and took it to the Transformation Management Team
  and Heads of Department (HSD) for consultation.

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Child Care and Protection Services (continued)
• Strategies to Combat Child Abuse, Neglect and
  Exploitation
• Part A of the Child Protection Register (CPR) has
  been maintained at all levels and the capturing
  of information on the CPR increased by 154 in
  six provinces.
• Data base system for part B of CPR of capturing
  unsuitable people has been developed and the
  enhancement of Part A register according to the
  Children's Amendment Act was completed .
• Plan developed and approved for the National
  Surveillance Study on Child Abuse, Neglect and
  Exploitation between DSD and CIDA (Canada)
• Contract signed between DSD and Child Welfare
  League of Canada and detailed project plan
  submitted by the CWLC who will act as the
  technical expert on the study on child abuse and
  neglect.

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Alternative Care
• Initiated, with support from UNICEF, a research
  project on cluster foster care models to assist
  the DSD to decide on appropriate models to adopt
  for standardisation
• Developed Protocols and guidelines for foster
  care.
• Adoptions and International Social Services
• Minister approved Inter-country adoption practice
  guidelines
• Attended International Social Services Council
  and Executive Committee meetings in Geneva in
  May 2008 and paid ISS annual membership fee
• Developed International Social Services (ISS)
  guidelines and took them to stakeholders for
  consultation
• Dealt with 519 ISS cases and returned one
  distressed child to Brazil

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Services to Children and Young People
• Orphans and Vulnerable Children
• Developed Draft Guidelines for Statutory Services
  to Child-Headed
• Finalised promotional material for Child Headed
  Households
• Children Living and Working on the Streets
• -Developed Final Draft Policy Framework for
  Children Living and Working on the Streets
• Information Management System for Early Childhood
  Development
• -Developed Draft Specifications for the
  Information system for new and existing ECD sites
  and took them for consultation with provinces.
• -Developed and Updated Manual database of
  registered ECD sites
• -Conducted Capacity Building on National
  Integrated Plan on Early Childhood Development
  (NIPECD) in the Western Cape, Limpopo, Gauteng
  and Free State provinces

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• Families, Victim Empowerment Programme (VEP) and
  social crime prevention
• Services to Families
• Completed Phase 1 of the Social Crime Prevention
  Strategy
• Finalised Reception Assessment and Referral
  Centre (RAR, Home Based Supervision (HBS)
  guidelines and national resource directory.
• Developed a draft Social Crime prevention
  Strategy
• Conducted training for probation officers on the
  following
• Norms and standards on
  Diversion 201 officers trained
• Report writing 253 officers were trained
• Customer care 164 officers
  were trained
• Conducted Re-orientation and training of 308
  Assistant Probation Officers as Social Auxiliary
  Workers together with the South African Council
  for Social Services Profession

"Building a caring society. together"
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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services
Families, Victim Empowerment Programme (VEP) and
social crime prevention (continued)

• Reviewed Shelter Strategy for Victims of abuse
  after consultation with key stakeholders
• Completed a review and audit of the National
  Resource directory
• Approved DSD strategy for families.
• Evaluated and Piloted Strategy on the Engagement
  of Men and Boys in the Prevention of Gender-based
  violence in North-West province,
• Developed Guidelines on human trafficking,
  domestic violence, rape and violent crimes
• Finalised and Approved Framework and Guidelines
  on Positive Values (Moral Regeneration).

"Building a Caring Society. Together"
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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• HIV/AIDS
• Home /community-based care and support
• Finalised National Action Plan on psychosocial
  support (after consolidating inputs from all
  stakeholders into the plan).
• Presented draft HCBC policy framework strategy at
  the HIV and AIDS coordinators workshop in June
  and October 20008 and presented final draft
  during meeting with Department of Health
• Reviewed current Memoranda of Understanding
  between DSD and Lovelife and PPSA
• Developed a module for monitoring and evaluating
  HCBC and data-collection tools for the module
  were implemented by 28 HCBC organisations in
  KwaZulu-Natal and North-West provinces
• 41908 community caregivers received accredited
  training in terms of the National Qualifications
  Framework (NQF) levels 1-4 through NGOs
• Developed Draft modules on psychosocial care and
  support as part of the implementation of the
  National Action Plan on psychosocial support for
  children and adults living with HIV and AIDS

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Programme 3 Social Welfare Services

• HIV/AIDS (continued)
• The National Action (NAP)
• Completed research study on situational analysis
  of Child-Headed Households in South Africa and
  distributed its findings to district and
  provincial HIV/Aids coordinators
• Developed Training manuals on Child Care Forums
  and succession planning
• National Audit of the Child Care Forums
• A service provider was appointed to conduct an
  audit of the child Care Forums through the
  country to determined the geographical location
  of forums, the range and coverage of their
  services, the nature of their capacity, their
  training and support needs and their sourcing of
  funding and costs
• The findings of the audit of Child Care Forums
  were presented at the NACCA meeting in February
  2009 and at the provincial and district
  coordinators meeting in March 2009

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Community Development
• Programme Objective
• Develop, monitor and facilitate the
  implementation of appropriate policies,
  strategies and programmes aimed at strengthening
  the potential of communities, including youth, to
  sustain and advance their livelihoods and further
  human development.
• Community Development Policy and Service
  Standards
• Developed a draft community development policy
  framework.
• Conducted a Skills Audit of Community Development
  Practitioners in all the 9 provinces.
• Developed and took for consultation 8 new
  Community Development Standards at NQ level 3 and
  (took for consultation 2 generic unit standards
  at NQ level 4)
• Appointed a national Community Development
  Professionalization Task Team to drive the
  process of registration of practitioners.
• Developed a database of community development
  practitioners which will be translated into a
  register once the registration body is
  established.
• Conducted a study to assess challenges and the
  support required by CBOs in relation to
  coordination and integration of services at a
  local level (final report available)

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Community Development (continued)
• Registration of NPOs
• Registered 6, 819 NPO applications (out of 14,207
  received) within two months. This increased the
  total number of registered NPOs to 56 237.
• 507 organisations were de-registered for
  non-compliance with the NPO Act, and two of these
  were re-instated after complying with the legal
  requirements (e.g by submitting annual report to
  the Department)
• Appointed 8 new members to the Panel of
  Arbitrators who convened four meetings that
  included orientation and adjudication of cases.
• Enhanced Institutional capacity of the sector
• Completed research on the benchmarking and
  reviewing of NPO governance practices.
• Undertook the evaluation of the CDP train-a
  trainer programme

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Sustainable livelihoods
• Household profiling
• Finalised a draft qualitative household profiling
  tool which was endorsed by all provincial
  Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) programme
  managers in July 2008. The tool was piloted in
  Mpumalanga.
• The tool was also used in profiling of 2 855 poor
  households from Western Cape, Mpumalanga,
  Gauteng, North West and Free State provinces.
• Facilitated the participation of 200 Community
  Development Practitioners (CDPs) in the
  implementation of the quantitative household
  profiling tool, which was developed by the
  Presidency and Statistics South Africa for the
  War on Poverty campaign.
• War on Poverty campaign
• DSD participated in provincial launches of the
  War on Poverty campaign, which is spearheaded by
  the Presidency.

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Programme 4 Community Development

• War on Poverty campaign (cont)
• The Department is represented in the National
  Task Team of the War Room on Poverty.
• Facilitated the construction of 20 vegi-tunnels
  in Ga Kgatla village in Limpopo in partnership
  with the Department of Agriculture and the office
  of the Premier.
• Developed a draft community profiling framework,
  which was tested in Kagiso township, Gauteng
  province
• Integrated Portfolio of programmes
• Facilitated the construction of 60 vegi-tunnels
  in NW, LP and EC provinces. 20 of these were
  erected in the newly resettled community of
  Bokfonten in North West, while 20 were erected in
  the Dutyini area of the Eastern Cape. The village
  of Ga-Kgatla in Limpopo received 20 vegi-tunnel
  as well.

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Sustainable livelihoods (continued)
• Fruit Trees
• A proposal for fruit trees to support
  deforestation, food security and greening in the
  three SLA learning sites, which are located in
  EC, LP and NW has been submitted to DWAF. The
  proposal was approved and the project will be
  roll out during the 2009/10 financial year.
• Food Banks
• Developed a food banking concept document.
• Facilitated the signing of a Memorandum of
  Understanding between the SA government, the
  Community Food Banking Network of SA and the
  Global Food Banking Network.
• Supported 4 Community Food Banks in Cape Town
  (WC)Durban, (KZN) Port Elizabeth (EC),
  Johannesburg (Gauteng) and one rural food bank
  pilot in Umkhanyakude district municipality
  (KZN).

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Sustainable livelihoods (cont)
• Total Value Chain Model
• Introduced the total value chain poverty
  alleviation model using a hemp project in the
  Eastern Cape to demonstrates the potential of the
  model in poverty eradication.
• The first phase of the model has been
  successfully implemented with the participation
  of 100 beneficiaries and several stakeholders in
  East London, Eastern Cape.
• Developed and tested the Toolkit for CDP in SA
  and piloted/tested it in the Northern Cape and
  key findings on the pilot were costed and
  training process plans are ready for
  implementation during 09/10 financial year.
• Held consultations with Eastern Cape, North West
  Limpopo provinces on the development of a
  social development cooperatives concept document.
• Monitoring of Sustainable Livelihoods
  Implementation Partners
• Contracts of the National Association of People
  Living with HIV AIDS (NAPWA), the National
  Association of Burial Societies of SA(NABSSA)
  Food Bank SA, South African Hemp Industries,
  Khanya-African Institute for Community-driven
  Development and Independent Development Trust
  were developed and service level agreements were
  also generated.

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Sustainable livelihoods (cont)
• Conducted site visits to Kalkfontein community to
  asses progress on construction of community hall
• Conducted 3 monitoring site visits to
  Silindithemba Co-op and Siyaqhubeka Drop-In
  Centre
• Conducted site visit workshops to 12 disability
  workshops in Limpopo
• DSD facilitated the implementation of poverty
  relief projects that were supported by the
  Independent Development Trust (IDT) and handed
  over to provinces. Through this process 408
  projects were successfully handed over while 102
  of these are fully functional after being turned
  into cooperatives.

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Youth
• Youth Development Policies and strategies
• Developed guidelines on the Youth Development
  Strategy.
• DSD audited 5 pieces of legislation affecting the
  youth. The audit had to be completed internally
  due to financial constraints. This requires
  further consultation.
• A national youth policy was approved by Cabinet
• Improved services for youth
• A youth service programme toolkit which covers
  the youth development strategy and national youth
  service was developed and distributed to
  provinces.
• Facilitated the established youth directorates in
  5 provinces to strengthen institutional capacity
  for youth development.
• Cabinet approved the national youth development
  policy.

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Youth (continued)
• Mainstream and integrate the National Youth
  Service Programme (NYS)
• Conducted a training in North West Province.
• Masupatsela Pioneer Programme
• Developed a framework and 6 modules for the
  Masupatsela curriculum.
• 10 Cuban experts were interviewed and selected
  for deployment and a contract between DSD and
  Cubatecnica was signed.
• 2,114 youth pioneers were recruited and oriented
  while 1,754 pioneers participated in War on
  Poverty initiatives.

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Programme 4 Community Development

• Community Development (continued)
• Professionalisation of Youth Work
• In March 2009, DSD hosted a national youth work
  policy conference. The research report on the
  state of youth work in SA was finalised and
  launched. The process of professionalisation is
  continuing and the declarations of the conference
  clearly give direction to the process of
  professionalizing youth work.
• Youth volunteerism
• Held 4 roundtable workshops on youth volunteerism
  under the themes
• Youth Volunteers for Development
• Creating an Enabling Environment for Youth
  Volunteerism in the Private Sector,
• Creating an Enabling Environment for Youth
  Volunteerism in the Public sector , and
• Strengthening Youth Volunteerism in Civil
  Society.
• Consolidated a draft framework on youth
  volunteerism , although it still requires
  further consultation.

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Programme5 Strategy and Governance

• PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE
• To lead the strategic management component of the
  Department foster operational efficiency through
  improved alignment between mandates, strategies
  and institutional capacity provide strategic
  guidance on social policy development,
  coordination and evaluation strategic plan
  facilitate and develop the departments strategic
  plan oversee all entities, agencies and boards
  reporting to the Department.
• Entity oversight and Management
• Finalised and facilitated the approval of
  Compliance Reporting Framework for Public
  Entities (SASSA and NDA)
• Developed and facilitated the approval of Terms
  of Reference for the Ministers interface with
  SASSA and the NDA
• Developed and facilitated the signing of MoU
  between the Minister of Social Development and
  the NDA Board
• Conducted Performance reviews for entities based
  on their strategic plans

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Key Social Security Institutions (Independent
Tribunal for Social Assistance Appeals)

• Established an Independent Tribunal for Social
  Assistance Appeals
• The tribunal adjudicates appeals emanating form
  the grant applications process administered by
  SASSA.
• Minister appointed 128 individuals to serve on
  the tribunal, which includes 58 medical
  practitioners, 47 legal experts and 23 members of
  civil society.
• By March 2009, the tribunal had considered and
  finalised 13,269 of the 60,970 appeals lodged
  during the reporting period.

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Special Projects Coordination

• Completed the Expanded Public Works Programme
  (EPWP) Social Sector Action Plan.
• By March 2009, the social sector had created 174
  255 jobs through EPWP, well above the five year
  target of 150 000.
• Finalised the review of Phase 1 of the EPWP and
  findings of the review and broad principles for
  framing EPWP Phases 2 were endorsed by Cabinet.
• Commenced with the process of designing Phase 2
  of EPWP in May 2008 and pa reference group and
  steering committee to drive the process .

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont.

• Social Policy
• Completed Audit of research commissioned by
  Directorates in the Department and developed
  mechanisms to ensure value and quality of
  research.
• 54 civil servants working in policy development
  at national and provincial departments received
  training in social policy. This brings to 200,
  the number of senior officials trained in social
  policy since 2005
• In order to promote the research-policy nexus and
  promote evidence based policy making in the SADC
  region, the DSD has embarked on a process of
  securing joint leadership and ownership with
  other countries in the region , which will allow
  the holding and hosting of conferences and
  workshops in countries committed to this
  initiative.
• With the adoption of the Draft SADC Regional
  Social Policy Framework, the DSD initiated a
  network of policy makers and high level civil
  servants in countries such as Swaziland,
  Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana,
  Mauritius . The DSD is moving towards
  formalisation through the holding of annual
  events.

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont.

• Monitoring and Evaluation.
• In order to create facilitated an effective ME
  system in the social sector, especially the
  provinces, DSD piloted an electronic monitoring
  system in 3 provinces as planned.
• A modified electronic monitoring and paper-based
  tools were updated based on the pilot and
  pretesting projects is available.
• Developed and finalised Non-Financial
  Performance Indicators and a compendium of
  indicators for monitoring social sector
  performance.
• Facilitated the training of 35 officials from the
  social sector in the International Programmed for
  Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) offered
  by the World Bank and Carleton University,
  Canada, in July 2008. This seeks to build ME
  capacity in the social sector
• An evaluation framework with appropriate
  indicators has been finalised.
• An impact evaluation plan for the Child Support
  Grant has been developed and the project will be
  implemented in the next financial year.

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont.

• Population and Development
• Finalised a series of thematic chapters for the
  country-wide report (see below) were finalised by
  31 March 2009. The final report is joint
  policy10/ICPD15 report. The thematic chapters
  of the report were loaded onto the population
  website (www. population.gov.za).
• The final ICPD15 country report and related
  questionnaires, compiled on the basis of evidence
  derived from the policy10 review process, were
  submitted to UNECA in Addis Ababa in March 2009.
• The draft thematic chapters (for 10-year policy
  review) on migration and urbanisation, poverty
  and inequality, reproductive health and rights,
  gender equality equity, children, families
  households, youth, HIV and Aids, plus an overview
  of population trends dynamics, as part of the
  population policy10 review process were
  completed at the end of March 2009.
• Concept paper on technical facility drafted, and
  taken for consultation to stakeholders to
  consider alternatives in June 2008. Concept was
  adjusted to properly link with the Toolkit for
  Integrated Planning (TIP), developed by DPLG,
  DST, and Housing in partnership with the CSIR.

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont.

• Population and Development (cont)
• Completed Field work for second phase of nodal
  research project.
• Submitted Final report on findings of Phase 2 of
  multi-year nodal point research to Minister in
  August 2008, and to Presidency, DPLG, and DSD
  Executive Committee in September 2008.
• Deputy Minister launched the report, entitled,
  Building Sustainable Livelihoods An overview,
  at a Public Seminar on Policy10 in December
  2008.
• A major outcome of the research project was the
  production of evidence on socio-economic and
  demographic baselines for each node and an
  overview of each node, and information on urban
  and rural project designs and progress with the
  implementation of current UNFPA Country Programme
  and Poverty Relief Programme.

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont

• Population and Development cont
• The Department conducted Capacity Building on
  Population and Development as follows
• Applied Population Science in Training and
  Research (APSTAR) training programme
• FBO capacity building (2 Training Sessions to
  FBOS which extended training to 80 Master
  Trainers in Limpopo and Eastern Cape)
• Population, Environment and Development nexus
  training
• Population, HIVAIDS capacity development course
• Towards sustainable development Population
  environment and development in integrated
  development planning.
• FBO sensitisation workshops conducted in Eastern
  Cape and North West in partnership with UNFPA and
  EC Council of Churches Sensitised and obtained
  commitment from the top leadership of the Shembe
  Group for the FBO capacity building project
• -A Major outcome of FBO capacity building
  programme was a better understanding of
  population issues among religious leaders and the
  integration of population issues into church
  activities
• -Population and development strategies were
  disseminated via press and electronic media in
  Limpopo KZN.

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont.

• Population and Development cont.
• Conducted Training on Population, Environment and
  Development (PED) Nexus in Cape Town (31
  participants) and Free State (42 participants).
• Presented a capacity building programme on
  Leadership Training in Environment and
  Sustainable Development for youth in the Eastern
  Cape in March 2009, focusing on issues of
  sustainable development and leadership skills for
  youth.
• Population HIV and AIDS Capacity Development
  Course Conducted 10 population HIV AIDS
  training courses Free State 3 Mpumalanga 2
  North-West 1 Eastern Cape 1 Western Cape 1
  KwaZulu-Natal 1 Gauteng 1. A total number of
  116 individuals from all spheres of government
  civil society participated in and benefitted from
  this initiative.

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont

• Strategy, Planning and Development and Risk
  Management
• Produced a high level concept document that will
  guide the process of developing a sector
  strategy. A planning handbook was finalised and
  edited in January 2009. In support of the
  planning handbook, a checklist for the assessment
  of the Annual Performance Plans for provinces was
  also developed.
• Institutionalised an enterprise risk management
  function within the Department with the necessary
  documentation, developed and operationalised
  processes and systems.
• Developed a sector infrastructure framework with
  a toolkit to facilitate infrastructure planning
  and implementation. Developed a national and
  sector infrastructure plan for the MTEF period.
• A Gender Needs Analysis Study has been completed
  and integrated into the DSD Gender Policy.
• SADC Gender and Development Protocol was
  popularised on National Womens Day 2008.Attended
  the 53rd session of the United Nations Commission
  on the Status of Women

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Programme 5 Strategy and Governance Cont

• Strategy, Planning and Development and Risk
  Management
• Launched the Customer Care Charter.
• -Final Customer Care Strategy is ready for
  implementation.
• -Launched and Distributed Customer Social
  Services Handbook at Nyandeni Great Place
  (Eastern Cape).
• -Launched Complaints Coordination guidelines and
  Manual that are ready for implementation.
• Introduced, coordinated and managed an Internal
  Consulting Capacity Building Programme (ICON).
  The programme seeks to capacitate DSD staff with
  rare skills that so as to reduce reliance on
  external service providers.

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International Obligations Key Achievements

• During the 2008/09 financial year the Minister
  undertook 11 international official visits while
  the Deputy Minister undertook 9 such visits.
• Minister
• Purpose of the visits
• To pursue the social development mandate and
  discharge the Ministers United Nations
  Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  (UNESCO) leadership functions, in line with the
  International Relations Peace and Security
  Cluster objectives of promoting the African
  agenda and fostering international solidarity
• International Conference on Decentralisation and
  Coordination The Twin Challenges of Labour
  market Policy in Italy
• World Ageing Conference in Abu Dhabi, United
  Arab Emirates
• 52nd session of the OECD Centre for Enterprise
  Development, Local Employment and Economic
  Development Programme in Paris, France
• NAASP Plus Ministerial Conference on Capacity
  Building for Palestine in Indonesia

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International Obligations Key Achievements

• Purpose of the visits (cont)
• Dialogue on Social Policies in South East Asia
  (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Summit on Geneva declaration on armed violence
  and development
• World Economic Forums Global agenda Council on
  empowering Youth in Dubai
• Second Forum of Arab Ministers of social Affairs/
  Social Development, The role of corporate social
  responsibility in social development in Arab
  Region in Amman, Jordan
• Official visit in Sweden
• 47th session of UN Commission on Social
  Development in New York
• Meeting of the G8 Labour and Social Policy
  ministers in Rome

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International Obligations Key Achievements

• Deputy Minister
• Purpose of the visits (continue)
• International consultative conference on Poverty
  and Development in Mauritius
• 6th Ordinary session of Au Labour and Social
  Affairs Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• 3rd International meeting of Spanish and African
  women in Niger
• 12th BIEN Conference on Basic income in Ireland
• SA/DRC Partnership Conference in DRC
• XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City
• Hope 2008 International Conference on Alcohol and
  Drugs in Mumbai, India
• AU meeting in Namibia
• 53rd session of the UN Commission on the status
  of Women in New York

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International Obligations Key Achievements

• Strengthening African Institutions of governance
• Concluded multi-lateral agreements with Mauritius
  and Mexico.
• Agreements with Mali, Zimbabwe, Sudan and Brazil
  prepared, awaiting approval.
• DSD participated in the following SADC and AU
  meetings SADC Population and Development
  meeting AU Population Development AU meeting of
  Social Development in Namibia.
• Contribute towards the post-conflict
  reconstruction and development in Africa
• Four-member team based in the DRC facilitated the
  training of 200 senior managers on project
  management and human resource development.
• Coordinated a conference on donor mobilisation
  and conference on engagement of civil society.

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International Obligations Key Achievements

• Promotion of international solidarity
• Participated in the working group on social
  development and the IBSA working group on civil
  society during the IBSA summit in India.
• An implementation plan with Cuba is in operation
  while collaboration on community development has
  been initiated with Jamaica.
• DSD continue its collaboration with Malta.
• Collaboration with Oxford University and UNESCO
  is ongoing.
• Shared vision on international agenda
• Participated in benchmarking initiatives with
  DRC, Sweden, Canada , United Kingdom, Mexico and
  Chile.

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Strategic Challenges

• During the year under review, the Department
  faced among others, the following challenges
• Human Capital A high staff turnover in the
  Financial Planning and Expenditure Monitoring
  Unit had a negative impact on effectiveness of
  operations. Some vacated posts could only be
  filled during the third and fourth quarters of
  the 2008/09 financial year, and some are in the
  process of being filled.
• Financial Constraints The labour relations
  strategy for social sector could not be completed
  due to financial constraints.
• Legislative challenges The Harmonised Assessment
  Tool for assessment of the disability grant could
  not be implemented as the Social Assistance Act
  could not be amended to give effect to
  implementation (see slides on legislative
  programme for details)
• Legislative challenges The draft Bill on Social
  Services could not be finalised since the draft
  policy on social services is yet to be approved
  by relevant structures.
• Accreditation of Service Providers The lack of
  accredited service providers for community
  caregivers in the Home/Community-Based Care
  programme.
• Interdepartmental/ institutional challenges The
  implementation of the national action plan for
  children affected by HIV could not proceed as
  planned as a result of poor representation by
  stakeholders on the National Action Committee for
  Children Affected by HIV and AIDS(NACCA).

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Part C FINANCIAL REPORT 2008/09
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AIM OF THE VOTE

• The aim of the Department of Social Development
  is to provide protection against vulnerability
  and poverty and ensure the provision of a
  comprehensive, integrated and sustainable social
  development service.

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DEPARTMENTAL SPENDING
R000
99,4 Actual Spending
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DIVISION OF 2008/09 DEPARTMENTAL
EXPENDITURE R000
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2008/09 OPERATIONAL SPENDING Excluding transfer
payments
99,25 Actual Spending
R000
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DIVISION OF 2008/09 OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURE
R000
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2008/09 Matters of Importance

• Following the shifting of the social assistance
  function from provinces to the national
  government, the entire budget for the social
  assistance transfers (social grants) of R71,176
  billion was voted to the Department.
• SASSA remains responsible for the distribution of
  these funds to social grant beneficiaries through
  various distribution channels.
• The Director-General of the Department of Social
  Development remains accountable for the
  expenditure and also reports as such in the
  Departments statements.
• In terms of the present flow of funds
  arrangement, any shortcomings and/or failures in
  SASSAs internal control systems in the area of
  social assistance transfers may have a negative
  impact on the financial statements of the
  Department of Social Development.

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2008/09 Unspent Funds

• Under-spending at the end of the 2008/09
  financial year was R 457,471 million.
• Programme 1 Administration R 764 000
• Under spending relates to the normal staff turn
  over.
• Programme 2 Comprehensive Social Security R
  451,914 million
• Under-expenditure relates mainly to the social
  assistance grants.
• Programme 3 Policy Development, Review and
  Implementation Support for Welfare Services R
  2,141 million
• Under-expenditure relates mainly to unforeseen
  administrative delays in the execution of planned
  projects.

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2008/09 Unspent Funds Cont.

• Programme 4 Community Development R 2,103
  million
• The bulk of under-expenditure relates to
  transfers and subsidies and is mainly due to
  non-compliance with prescripts by NPOs.
• Programme 5 Strategy and Governance R 549 000
• Under-expenditure on current payments relate to
  projects that will only be finalised in the
  2009/10 financial year.

"Building a Caring Society. Together"
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AUDITOR GENERALS REPORT
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2008/09 Auditor Generals Report

• The Department received an unqualified audit
  opinion for the seventh year in a row.
• The Auditor-General raised certain matters of
  concern in relation to certain weaknesses
• Control                         13
• Financial                     49
• Compliance                   9
• Value for money          1
• Action plan has been developed to address the
  identified weakness. Implementation of this plan
  is being monitored on a monthly basis.
• 35 of weakness identified have already been
  addressed as they related to disclosure of
  financial statements.

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2008/09 Auditor Generals Report

• Emphasis of matter
• Flow of funds
• As indicated in the report of the accounting
  officer, despite the grant expenditure being
  reported in the annual financial statements of
  the Department of Social Development, a dual
  accountability relationship exists between the
  Department and the South African Social Security
  Agency over the grants. The status of the current
  relationship therefore results in a situation
  where actions of the South African Social
  Security Agency have an impact on the audit
  report of the Department of Social Development on
  matters concerning grant expenditure.

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2008/09 Auditor Generals Report

• Emphasis of matter (Continued)
• Basis of Accounting
• The Departments policy is to prepare financial
  statements on the modified cash basis of
  accounting determined by the National Treasury.

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2008/09 Auditor Generals Report

• Other Matters
• Social Assistance Grants
• The responsibility for grant administration and
  the payment of grants reside in the South African
  Social Security Agency. The following matters
  arose from the processes and activities that
  transpired in the South African Social Security
  Agency
• Social Assistance Grant Debtors
• The following shortcomings regarding the social
  assistance debtors were identified
• Repayments made by the grant debtors originated
  from multiple sources, including bank deposits.
  Numerous cash deposits contained inadequate
  references which resulted in unallocated receipts
  not being allocated to debtor accounts. The
  Department is in consultation with the National
  Treasury regarding this issue.
• A single dedicated financial debtor system did
  not exist for the management of grant debtors.
• Due to the circumstances affecting the majority
  of the debtors (being poverty stricken
  individuals), many of the recorded debtors may
  not be recoverable or recovery may not be cost
  effective.

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2008/09 Auditor Generals Report

• Other Matters (Continued)
• Social Relief of Distress Grants
• During the 08/09 financial year, the South
  African Social Security Agency was tasked with
  the distribution of the Social Relief of Distress
  (SRD) grant (which consisted of either food, food
  vouchers, school uniforms or cash) to alleviate
  general poverty. The following shortcomings
  existed within the processes of the Agency in
  distributing the grant to the intended
  beneficiaries
• Documentation critical to the application for the
  grant was not complete.
• It could not be confirmed in all instances that
  the correct person received the correct amount of
  relief aid at the correct time and place.
• Effective controls in respect of food vouchers
  and aid purchased to be distributed were not
  implemented.
• Beneficiary applications were captured offline
  which could have resulted in unnoticed erroneous
  duplication of payments.
• Distribution of relief aid was not performed in a
  standardised or consistent manner in all
  provinces.
• Supply chain management requirements, were not
  adhered to in the procurement of relief aid.
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2008/09 Auditor-Generals Report (Cont

• Matters of Governance
• Material adjustments were made to the financial
  statements after being submitted. The reason for
  this was due to the insufficiency of human
  resources within the finance section of the
  Department.

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Way Forward on 2008/09 Audit Outcome

• A Strategic Task Team on the social assistance
  grant debtors has been established with
  representatives from SASSA and DSD that will be
  supported by representatives from the National
  Treasury.
• A comprehensive plan, which will include the
  transfer of functions from the Special
  Investigating Unit to SASSA, with specific
  reference to the social assistance debtors is in
  the process of completion. This plan will also
  include the future management of the social
  assistance grant debtors currently managed by
  Special Investigation Unit.
• A detailed action plan has been developed and
  implemented to address the concerns raised by the
  Auditor-General in his Management letter with
  regard to aspects related to compliance control
  financial administration and value for money.  

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PART DLegislative Programme for 2008/09
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Legislative Achievements for period 2008/09

• The Childrens Act, 2005, the Old Persons
  Act,2006, and the Childrens Amendment act, 2007
• These Acts are not yet fully operational.
• Certain sections of the Childrens Act were
  operationalised in 2007.
• These Acts require regulations prior to being
  fully operationalised.
• By March 2009, Regulations for these Acts had not
  yet been finalised. It is hoped that these will
  be finalised by March 2010.
• Prevention of Treatment for Substance Abuse Bill
• The Prevention of and Treatment for Substance
  Abuse Act was signed by the President in February
  2009.

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Legislative Plans for the Period 2008/09

• Regulations
• Regulations for the following pieces of
  legislation were scheduled for finalisation
  during the 2008/09 financial year
• Social Assistance Act,2004 (Regulations finalised
  in August 2008)
• Childrens Act,2005 (could not be finalised)
• Older Persons Act,2006 (could not be finalised)
• Social Services Professions Act, 1978 (could not
  be finalised)
• The following pieces of legislation could not be
  introduced due to a new Cabinet directive which
  requires that a policy be approved by cabinet
  before a Bill is drafted
• Social Service Professions Bill
• National Development Agency Amendment Bill
• Social Assistance Amendment Bill
• Social Relief Funds Bill

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