South African Child Gauge
The only publication that monitors the situation of children in South Africa on an annual basis by presenting academic evidence in plain language for multiple audiences
The South African Child Gauge is published annually by the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town to monitor South Africa’s progress in realising children’s rights. Key features include a collection of themed essays; an overview of legislative developments affecting children; and quantitative data which track children’s access to a range of services.
2009/2010: Healthy children: from survival to optimal development This issue focuses on the tension between children’s rights and the poor status of child health in South Africa. It identifies current challenges and recommends key interventions to promote children’s health, survival and optimal development
2008/2009: Meaningful access to basic education Essays focus on the right to education; meaningful access; budgetary frameworks; school-fee waivers; children out of school; poverty and exclusion; partnerships between schools and communities; and strengthening numeracy and literacy in the foundation phase. A pull-out poster maps national and provincial education provisioning and outcomes.
2007/2008: Children’s right to social services Within the context of a developmental social welfare system, the essays describe and analyse the law and policies that aim to give effect to children’s right to social services, and make recommendations on key budgetary, human resource and implementation challenges related to the Children’s Act.
2006: Children and poverty This issue presents a multi-dimensional model of child poverty and reviews barriers that prevent children accessing key poverty alleviation programmes such as social assistance, education, primary health care, housing and water. A pull-out poster provides provincial data on key child-centred socio-economic indicators.
2005: Children and HIV/AIDS The essays discuss antiretroviral roll-out to children, social security for children in a time of AIDS, schools as nodes of care and support for children affected by HIV/AIDS, and children’s participation in law-making processes.
Nearly 1 in 5 children lives far from school
Proportion of children living far from school
Source: Statistics South Africa (2010) General Household Survey 2009. Analysis by Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. For more information see
www.childrencount.ci.org.za.
Coming soon: South African Child Gauge 2010/2011: Children’s participation in social dialogue Download or order a hard copy at
www.ci.org.za. For more information, contact +27 21 689 5404 or
info@ci.org.za.
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