An agreement was reached between the Social Development department and other stakeholders that current outstanding foster care orders will remain valid until the end of November 2020.
Johannesburg - South Africa’s dire foster care system received yet another bailout when an agreement was reached between the department of Social Development and other stakeholders that current outstanding foster care orders will remain valid until the end of November 2020.
The Social Development minister had to urgently turn to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday, as the deadline for outstandingThis followed an order in 2017, in which this court placed a moratorium on the lapsing of foster care orders. Judge Johan Louw at the time gave Social Development department two years to come up with legislation to streamline current legislation which is failing foster care.
The court at the time granted an extension to Social Development to clear the foster care backlogs and to present a comprehensive plan to Parliament as to how these issues were going to be dealt with.
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