This article from GroundUp describes the high prevalance of delays experienced by those seeking foster care grants in South Africa. Paula Proudlock and Katharine Hall, senior researchers at the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town, said there are 400,000 children in a system "designed for 50,000 to 100,000 children" and not enough social workers to process their cases. "In addition," says the article "the system did not sufficiently take into account informal kinship care."
