Policy submissions & commentary

Supplementary submissions to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child following the Government of South Africa’s written replies to the List of Issues2
August 2016

Initial Complementary Report to the African Committee of Experts in response to South Africa’s Initial Country Report on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

Alternate Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in response to South Africa’s Combined 2nd, 3rd and 4th Periodic Country Report on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The South African Alternate Report Coalition initial statement.
Submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child Working Group at the Committee’s 73rd pre-session February 2016.

Children's Institute submission on the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act Amendment Bill [B 18-2014]
Mathews S & Jamieson L 2015
Submitted to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, Parliament.

Submission on amendments to the Children's Act: Corporal punishment, July 2013

Jamieson L & Mathews S 2013

Children’s Institute submission on South Africa’s Country Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Mathews S & Proudlock P 2013
Presented to the Portfolio Committee on Woman, Children and People with Disabilities, National Parliament.

Children’s Institute submission on the second Children’s Amendment Bill
Proudlock P & Tilley A 2013

Presentation to National Treasury on social welfare services: According to the law what is government obligated to provide and fund?
Proudlock P & Skelton A 2013

Selection of evidence on key challenges facing children and implications for policy reform and service delivery
Proudlock P & Jamieson L 2012
Requested by Department of Social Development to inform annual strategic planning