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Resource Centre

On this page you can find documents that contribute to the legal framework for ECD in South Africa, as well as important policy and research documents.

South African Law

  • Children’s Act
  • Children’s Act regulations (including Norms and Standards and prescribed forms)
  • South African Constitution

South African Policy

  • National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy
  • National Development Plan 2030

International Policy and Research

  • Nurturing care for ECD Framework
  • Lancet ECD series

International agreements

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • General Comment No. 7 (2005): Implementing child rights in early childhood
  • African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
  • Sustainable Development Goal 4 (education including ECD)

Research and data

  • South African ECD Census 2021
  • South African Child Gauge (Children’s Institute)
  • Children Count: Statistics on Children in South Africa (Children’s Institute)
  • Early Learning Outcomes Measure
  • South African Early Childhood Review 2017 (Ilifa Labantwana)
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