# summary

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/children/summary/
- Published: 2020-10-27T09:34:40+02:00
- Author: dearSA

[ View the Children's Amendment Bill campaign](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/children/)

### The draft Bill seeks to amend the Act;

 * to provide for children’s right to privacy and protection of information;
 * to further provide for the rights of unmarried fathers; to extend the children’s
   court jurisdiction;
 * to further provide for funding of early childhood development programmes;
 * to provide for the designation and functions for a Registrar of the National 
   Child Protection Register;
 * to further provide for the care of abandoned or orphaned children and additional
   matters that may be regulated;
 * to further provide for rules relating to care and protection proceedings;
 * to further provide for medical testing of children in need of care and protection
   or adoption;
 * to provide for additional matters relating to children in alternative care;
 * to further provide for matters relating to adoption and inter-country adoption;
 * to further provide for the hearing of child abduction matters;
 * to further provide for matters relating to surrogate motherhood; and
 * to provide for matters connected therewith.

### MEMORANDUM OF OBJECTS

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### DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS

 * [Children’s Amendment Bill (B18–2020)](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20190857/B18-2020_Children.pdf)
 * [Children’s Act (38–2005)](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20190852/Childrens-Act-38-2005-as-amended-21-April-2010-s.pdf)
 * [Presentation on Clauses of the Amendment Bill](https://cdn.dearsouthafrica.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20190852/PRESENTATION-ON-CLAUSES-OF-THE-CHILDRENS-BILL-2020-updated-002-s.pdf)

### IN THE MEDIA

 * [[listen] – ChaiFM, New Blue Review with Benji Shulman (Rob Hutchinson guest)](https://www.chaifm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020.10.26-Rob-Hutchinson-MD-of-Dear-South-Africa-a-nonprofit-which-facilitates-public-participation-in-government-decision-making-process.mp3)