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Children's Act, 2005 (Act No. 38 of 2005)

Chapter 13 : Child and Youth Care Centres

Part 2 : Operation and management of child and youth care centre

211. Quality assurance process

 

(1) The provincial head of social development must ensure that a quality assurance process is conducted in respect of each child and youth care centre in the manner and at the intervals as prescribed.

 

(2) The quality assurance process must be done in the following manner:
(a) A team connected to the child and youth care centre must conduct an internal assessment of the centre;
(b) a team not connected to the centre must conduct an independent assessment of the centre;
(c) an organisational development plan for the centre containing the prescribed particulars must be established between the teams by agreement; and
(d) the team not connected to the centre must appoint a mentor to oversee implementation of the plan by the management of the centre.

 

(3) The management board of a child and youth care centre must without delay, after completion of the quality assurance process, submit a copy of the organisational development plan established for the centre in terms of the quality assurance process to the MEC for social development in the province.

 

(4) A provincial head of social development may assist a child and youth care centre in conducting the quality assurance process as contemplated in subsection (1).