Children's Amendment Draft Bill

The Department of Basic Education invites you to comment on the draft Children's Amendment Bill.

The Bill seeks to amend the Children's Act, 2005, so as to:
• insert new provisions to further provide for the requirements of a strategy concerning early childhood development;
• provide for the collection of data on early childhood development;
• further provide for funding of early childhood development programmes;
• further provide for the specification of norms and standards for early childhood development programmes;
• provide for measures relating to registration and conditional registration;
• provide for roles and responsibilities of organs of state and different spheres of government in the provision of early childhood development programmes, facilities and such other related matters; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Find here: Template for your submissions 

Comments can be emailed to Dr J Kotze at [email protected] by no later than Wednesday, 12 June 2024