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Welcome to the Children Count - Abantwana Babalulekile site! On this site you will find information about children in South Africa and their living conditions, their care arrangements, their health status, and their access to schools and other services. In South Africa, children have a range of rights as set out by the Constitution and international law. Some of these are socio-economic in nature. These refer to the material conditions children live in, and the services that they should be able to receive. These rights appear in the Bill of Rights of the South African Constitution. Everyone has a right to have access to adequate housing, health-care services, sufficient food and water, social security and basic education. Children are specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights, and every child has the right to basic nutrition, shelter, basic health-care services and social services. So how well are we doing as a country to make sure that children’s rights are realised? The only way we can really answer that question is by monitoring the situation of children. And to do that we need information about children. Most information does not focus on children, but counts people or families or households. What you will find on this site is child-centred data. You will find out how many children have access to adequate water, or live in poor families, or die before their fifth birthday, and why. The project draws on the most recent data from Statistics South Africa as well as on administrative data from relevant government departments. Details about the data sources can be viewed on this site. There is still a lot of information we don’t have, but we hope that this project and this web site is a good start to monitoring the situation of children in South Africa and the realisation of their socio-economic rights. The site displays an interactive tool that will allow you to search a database of close to 40 indicators, and allows you to download graphical presentations of the data such as tables and charts. We will update the information every time there is new research. So watch out for trends over time! For more information on these topics from the Children’s Institute and other sources, follow the link on the menu bar to the Children’s Institute’s web site. Enjoy your visit! |
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