We welcome the opportunity to comment on the Children’s Amendment Bill 2025 (CAB 2025) published by the Department of Social Development (DSD) on 26 September 2025. According to the Cabinet Statement, the Bill aims to update and strengthen the existing Children’s Act, 2005 (Act 38 of 2005), focusing on several key areas such as weaknesses and inadequacies in the childcare and protection systems. With this in mind, this submission focusses exclusively on the proposed amendments to provisions governing partial care, and their implications for the ECD sector, and on the provisions governing child protection.
