Question NW3393 to the Minister of Social Development
24 November 2023 - NW3393
van der Merwe, Ms LL to ask the Minister of Social Development
In light of the report from the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town, titled Reducing Child Poverty: A review of child poverty and the value of the child support grant that she received on 5 October 2023, which provides detailed information on how to end child food poverty in the Republic, as well as options to increase the current grant, what are the detailed timelines that she has put in place for the implementation of the recommendations of the report, noting that she is allegedly on record saying the report will not gather dust?
Reply:
It is important for the Honourable Member to note that the report in question was commissioned by the Department of Social Development. It is for this reason that the d findings and recommendations of the report have already been put to good use to inform the Draft Policy on social assistance for children, which is currently in the initial policy development stages.
The Department is planning to develop an action plan to implement the recommendations of the study.