Social Services

Community care

Fostering a child

Children are placed in foster care for different reasons, which include abuse, deliberate neglect and exploitation.

Community care

Older persons residential facilities

The Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) is dedicated to upholding, safeguarding, and advancing the rights and well-being of older individuals.

Community care

Substance Use Disorder

This service is dedicated to mitigating the impact of Substance Use Disorder.

NPO Helpdesk/ Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) information

What you need to know before establishing an NPO Running an organisation requires various skills such as project management, financial...

Education

Service providers rendering substance use disorder services: Application forms

Service Providers providing substance use disorder interventions, in the process of acquiring registration, please complete and submit the relevant application for

Social assistance

DSD assessing damage after Sivuyile fire

The Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) is assessing the extent of the fire damage to its Sivuyile residential facility for...

Media release

Make sure you know where your child is

While many revelers rang in the new year on beaches across the Western Cape, staff from the provincial Department of Social Development (DSD...

DSD HOD Dr Robert Macdonald, MEC Sharna Fernandez, Premier Alan Winde, MEC Anton Bredell, MEC Reagen Allen behind MEC Bredell

Public event

WCG shows its support for GBV survivors

Scores of people across the Western Cape formed human chains as a show of support for victims and survivors of gender-based violence (GBV)...

Wellness, Diversity and Disability

Let us continue protecting the rights of Persons with Disabilities

Disability Rights Awareness Month – which is observed between 03 November and 03 December – may be coming to an end, but we should continue...

Social assistance

Finding sustainable solutions to help those in need

The Western Cape Government (WCG) is no longer proceeding with the proposed Hope Exchange Shelter development on the old Tafelberg creche...