Statutory interventions of social workers in the Amathole District
- Authors: Kobese, Nozodwa
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Child welfare workers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Child welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/8498 , vital:26371
- Description: The issues about child protection have become a global concern. With the increase in cases of child abuse, neglect and mal-treatment, this study sought to address such issues in the South African context. The government through the Department of Social Development introduced various statutory requirements to ensure the protection of vulnerable children in South Africa. Through the use of a qualitative approach, this study investigated the duties of social workers working within statutory interventions to ensure the safety of abused and neglected children in two distinct areas in Amathole District, Eastern Cape. Semi-structured interviews from the study indicated that, social workers play major roles to ensure that vulnerable children are catered for. Their duties which are guided by law have seen so many abused children being removed from their place of abuse to better places of safety. However, despite the vigorous work done by social workers, statutory interventions still faces many challenges which make them ineffective.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Kobese, Nozodwa
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Child welfare workers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Child welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/8498 , vital:26371
- Description: The issues about child protection have become a global concern. With the increase in cases of child abuse, neglect and mal-treatment, this study sought to address such issues in the South African context. The government through the Department of Social Development introduced various statutory requirements to ensure the protection of vulnerable children in South Africa. Through the use of a qualitative approach, this study investigated the duties of social workers working within statutory interventions to ensure the safety of abused and neglected children in two distinct areas in Amathole District, Eastern Cape. Semi-structured interviews from the study indicated that, social workers play major roles to ensure that vulnerable children are catered for. Their duties which are guided by law have seen so many abused children being removed from their place of abuse to better places of safety. However, despite the vigorous work done by social workers, statutory interventions still faces many challenges which make them ineffective.
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- Date Issued: 2016
The child support grant in the Mdantsane and Potsdam communities
- Authors: Rasi, Nondwe Yvonne
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Child support -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Child welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Public welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/5225 , vital:20822
- Description: Introduction and background to the study: This study investigates the impact of Child Support Grant on household access to food; education, and health care. The primary investigation is conducted between Mdantsane Township and Postdam communities, which are within Buffalo City Metro Municipality in the Eastern Cape.
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Rasi, Nondwe Yvonne
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Child support -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Child welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Public welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/5225 , vital:20822
- Description: Introduction and background to the study: This study investigates the impact of Child Support Grant on household access to food; education, and health care. The primary investigation is conducted between Mdantsane Township and Postdam communities, which are within Buffalo City Metro Municipality in the Eastern Cape.
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- Date Issued: 2015
An evaluation of the child support grant as a poverty alleviation strategy : the case of King William's Town Centre
- Authors: Ganto, Cikizwa
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Child support -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Child welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Public welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Social security -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:8282 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1016496
- Description: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the CHILD SUPPORT GRANT as a poverty alleviation strategy as imposed by government in the King William‟s Town Centre. To achieve the objective of the study, a literature review and empirical research were conducted. During the empirical research, interviews were conducted and CSG beneficiaries taken on board as a sample. The impact of the CSG was evaluated to see if these are in line with what the literature reveals. The descriptive method was used to analyze the data and to find responses to the research questions and objectives. The research showed that the determinants are multiple: behavioral, lack of efficiency, and so on. Secondly, it is time for policy makers and others to work with implementers/beneficiaries to understand the implications and context of the CSG in the lives of the people. The critique of the Child Support Grant had not taken on board the viewpoints of caregivers concerning its socio-economic role. The discourse of the Child Support Grant therefore resulted in an over-representation of perceptions that excluded caregivers who collected and used the same grant. The popular approach by scholars to the Child Support Grant was to conclude, based on statistically measurable impacts of the grant, that it was effective in poverty alleviation, without regard to the viewpoint of caregivers. Others regarded its role as disastrous based on observable trends in society, such as increases in teenage fertility, and attributed the same to the provision of the grant, without regard to it as a poverty alleviation strategy.
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Ganto, Cikizwa
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Child support -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Child welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Public welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Social security -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:8282 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1016496
- Description: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the CHILD SUPPORT GRANT as a poverty alleviation strategy as imposed by government in the King William‟s Town Centre. To achieve the objective of the study, a literature review and empirical research were conducted. During the empirical research, interviews were conducted and CSG beneficiaries taken on board as a sample. The impact of the CSG was evaluated to see if these are in line with what the literature reveals. The descriptive method was used to analyze the data and to find responses to the research questions and objectives. The research showed that the determinants are multiple: behavioral, lack of efficiency, and so on. Secondly, it is time for policy makers and others to work with implementers/beneficiaries to understand the implications and context of the CSG in the lives of the people. The critique of the Child Support Grant had not taken on board the viewpoints of caregivers concerning its socio-economic role. The discourse of the Child Support Grant therefore resulted in an over-representation of perceptions that excluded caregivers who collected and used the same grant. The popular approach by scholars to the Child Support Grant was to conclude, based on statistically measurable impacts of the grant, that it was effective in poverty alleviation, without regard to the viewpoint of caregivers. Others regarded its role as disastrous based on observable trends in society, such as increases in teenage fertility, and attributed the same to the provision of the grant, without regard to it as a poverty alleviation strategy.
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- Date Issued: 2012
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