| |
|
|
| |
|
Children’s Institute Publications and other Resources |
|
|
|
The Children’s Institute publications, include:
Peer-reviewed journal articles | Books and chapters in books | Conference papers and posters | Research reports | Working papers | Policy and law submissions | Policy commentary and summaries | Case studies/evaluations | Workshop/seminar/roundtable reports | Popular journal articles | Resources such as fact sheets, rights briefs, posters, CD-ROMs and training tools
To register to receive these publications on a regular basis, click here. To order any of the publications that you read about in this edition, please contact Charmaine Smith. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
New publications
|
|
|
Children’s constitutional right to social services
|
| |
South African Child Gauge 2007/2008
Proudlock P, Dutschke M, Jamieson L, Monson J & Smith C (eds) 2008
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town
‘Children’s right to social services’ is the 2007/2008 theme of this popular annual review of the situation of children in South Arica. The Children’s Act (as amended) is the primary law that is aimed at giving effect to this right. The South African Child Gauge 2007/2008 provides in-depth information on some of the pioneering aspects of the new law and the budgetary and human resource challenges that need attention to enable maximum impact for vulnerable children. It also contains an update on legislative and policy developments pertaining to child rights, and provides updated statistics on the demographics of children in South Africa and their access to a range of socio-economic entitlements.
|
 |
Defining children's constitutional right to social services
Dutschke M 2006
A Project 28 Working Paper, July 2006
This paper elaborates on the meaning of children’s right to social services in section 28(1)(c) of the Bill of Rights. The working paper provides a useful analysis of the meaning of the right to highlight its importance and to assess whether new law and policy such as the Children’s Act adequately further the endeavour towards full realisation of this right.
|
 |
Rights in brief: Defining children’s constitutional right to social services
Dutschke M 2007
This rights brief is a colloquial version of the working paper on children’s constitutional right to social services – a right which featured prominently in recent Children’s Act and Children’s Amendment Bill discussions. The Children’s Act will focus on giving effect to three constitutional rights: children’s right to social services; their right to family care, parental care or appropriate alternative care; and the right to be protected from all forms of neglect and abuse. This brief outlines the scope and content of these rights.
|
 |
| |
Home truths: The phenomenon of residential care for children in a time of AIDS
Meintjes H, Moses S, Berry L & Mapane R 2007
Children’s Institute & Centre for the Study of AIDS, University of Pretoria, June 2007
This research report provides description and analysis of the complex patterning of residential care for children in South Africa , as well as how it relates to national policy and law and to international child welfare policy. It provides an analysis of basic characteristics of the children resident in the range of settings identified. It examines different aspects of the residential care settings themselves, including the legal status of homes, models of care, staffing, programme provision, funding, relationships to ‘community’, and knowledge and practice around HIV/AIDS. In highlighting the complexity of the phenomenon of residential care in practice, the report raises questions about the dominant policy discourses and the relationship between the State and the residential care sector.
|
 |
Towards a Means to Live: Targeting poverty alleviation to realise children's rights
Leatt A, Rosa S & Hall K 2005
This book is the result of three years of research by the Means to Live Project, which explores children’s access to the basic goods and services that are necessary for their survival and development. Its aim is to evaluate the targeting mechanisms used by government programmes to ensure the realisation of the socio-economic rights of poor children and their families.
The research in particular focused on families’ and children’s access to the Child Support Grant, the School Fee Exemption and No Fee policies, the National School Nutrition Programme, free primary health care and fee waivers for secondary and tertiary health care, the Housing Subsidy Scheme, and the Free Basic Water policy.
|
 |
Growing up in a time of AIDS: the Abaqophi basOkhayeni Abaqinile
Children’s Radio Project
Meintjes H 2007
The Abaqophi basOkhayeni Abaqinile are a group of children aged 9 - 14 years in rural
KwaZulu-Natal, who are making personal radio-diary programmes, as well as programmes which document and explore local issues of their choice. The project is a collaboration between the Children's Institute, Zisize Educational Trust and Okhayeni Primary School in Ingwavuma. The CD contains audio-visual copies of the programmes, with photographs and translation into English; MP3 audio copies of the Zulu and English programmes; transcriptions of the programmes; and information about the project.
|
 |
Champions for Children Handbook: How to build a caring school community
Rudolph N, Monson J, Collett K & Sonn B 2008
This handbook is a guide to mobilising schools and neighbourhoods around the well-being and needs of children to create caring school communities. It was developed through action research in four school communities in the Western Cape and the Free State. The work was done in partnership with the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union, and in collaboration with other organisations, including the Caring Schools Network (CASNET). The handbook is available in hard copy or CD-ROM to communities who would like to participate in the research.
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
