A Practical Approach to the Children’s Act

A vital resource for every person in the field of child care

All spheres of government and civil society have to co-operate and prioritise rendering the services provided for in the Children’s Act.

A Practical Approach to the Children’s Act covers every aspect of the law governed by the Children’s Act, ensuring that all factors are taken into account when making assessments and formulating advice.

Accessible and straightforward in its approach to the subject matter A Practical Approach to the Children’s Act is a complete, user-friendly guide that will assist you with the practical implementation of the Act. Readers will benefit greatly from the clear suggestions and instructions in the publication, as well as the notes indicating the appropriate regulations and forms at each section.

 

  • Parental responsibilities and rights
  • Children’s courts
  • Protection of children
  • Identification of children in need of care and protection
  • Adoption
  • Child abduction
  • Trafficking in children
  • Surrogate motherhood

Hester Bosman-Sadie, BA Hons (Soc Sci), SIAW
A practicing and professionally registered social worker with 40 years’ experience in the forensic field, Hester is also a registered adoption specialist, and well-known public speaker. She has authored several books, among them A Practical Approach to the Child Care Act (1992, translated and reprinted 1995), and Custody Disputes (1998), and a number of articles relating to the child and the law.
Hester is the chairperson and founding member of Agapé Community Services, a Section 21 company aimed at combating child abuse in previously-disadvantaged areas. She is a partner in a training company known as SaCor Training, and lectures nationally on the practical implementation of the new Children’s Act 38 of 2005.Hester is married with two children and a stepson.

Dr Lesley Corrie, (Social Work) Stellenbosch University
A registered mediator and practicing private social worker, professionally registered with the SACSSP, Lesley obtained her PhD in Social Work in 2003, with a thesis dealing with the issue of attachment in the step-family.
Her wealth of experience includes clinical assessments, forensic work, short course training on various aspects of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005, and matters relating to the management of social work.
Lesley is married and is the mother of two children.