Department of Social Development - Acts: 1997

To amend the Child Care Act, 1983, so as to broaden the provisions granting exemption to certain categories of persons who may care for certain children apart from their parents for a period longer than 14 days; and to remove the provisions that overlap with the provisions of the Social Assistance Act, 1992, that provide for state contributions to the maintenance by foster parents of foster children; to amend the Social Assistance Act, 1992, so as to provide for uniformity of, equality of access to, and effective regulation, of social assistance throughout the Republic; to introduce the child-