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The Children’s Act of South Africa (1983) calls on Child and Youth Care Centres (CYCCs) to offer transitional support to youth leaving care. Mamelani, an organisation in South Africa, has been active in this area of work for several years, providing ‘transitional support’ and responding to what was identified as a severe lack of options for young people exiting state care at age 18.
In 2012, Mamelani began an assessment of the content and focus of its transitional support programme. The aim was to consolidate its existing practice as well as to discover and implement new ways of…
Engagement with globalisation is growing in the field of youth transitions from out of home care. This includes cross national exchange of research, policy and practise, regional advocacy networking and global policy development. Furthering this emerging international child welfare perspective requires extending it to countries in the developing world and building conceptual frameworks which encompass a social ecology of care leaving, including its global dimension, the latter needs to address not only the needs, expectations and rights of care leavers but also the theories of change…
Marking the recent 21st Day of the African Child, the Consortium for Street Children (CSC), welcomed the choice of this year’s theme ‘All together for urgent actions in favour of street children’. In honor of this focus, the Consortium released a joint statement to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. The consortium noted it is vital that urgent action is taken to build on recent successes so that street children are not confined to the margins of relevant policy discussions again. CSC notes the urgent need for multi-stakeholder engagement and the…