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Department: Social DevelopmentChild Care and Protection The department will strengthen the provision of Child Care and Protection Services by placing 48 071 children with valid foster care orders in foster care. 83 children in foster care will be re-united with their families and the number of reported cases of child abuse will reach 2058. 719 children will access newly registered partial care facilities. 1373 Children in need of care and protection services will access services in funded CYCC%u2019s. 114 children in Child and Youth care Centres will be re-united with their families. 22 545 children will be reached through community-based prevention and early intervention programmes. Crime Prevention and Support A total of 80 622 persons will benefit through social crime prevention programmes and 341 children in conflict with the law will access secure care programmes and 355 persons in conflict with the law will complete Diversion Programmes. Substance Abuse Prevention and Rehabilitation To mitigate incidents of drug abuse and social crime in individuals, families and communities by targeting 124 709 people and 1 488 service users who will access substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services. Community Mobilization Programmes The department will reach 36 776 people through community mobilization programmes and 202 communities organized to coordinate their own development through Sustainable Community Development Interventions by creating vibrant and sustainable communities. Youth Development In ensuring that youth is provided with the right skills, the department will embark on the Youth development programmes which will focus on skills development and job creation, especially through social entrepreneurship and EPWP. Job opportunities to be created by creating job opportunities for 3 558 youths. 2 527 youths will participate in skills development Programmes, 144 youth will be linked to socio economic opportunities, 138 youth structures will be supported, and 12 451 youth will participate in youth mobilisation programmes. Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods Community Nutrition Development Centres will benefit 719 people, 6 962 people will benefit from poverty reduction initiatives, 345 Households will access food through DSD Food security Programmes, and 6 654 will benefit through DSD feeding programmes. Women Development To promote women%u2019s rights and socio-economic empowerment to achieve gender equality and improved livelihood status for women, 1 997 women will participate in skills development programmes for socio-economic empowerment. 4 REPRIORITISATION The department reprioritised R15 million from Goods & Services to Capital Payments for rehabilitation of service delivery offices that have been handed over to the contractor by the implementing agent. This will improve the services offered by the department as infrastructure is one of the main enablers for provision of social services. The reprioritisation will put more cost pressure on services such as cleaning, security, municipality and leasing of offices which has an adverse impact on service delivery across the province. 250