Following the launch of this year's National Child Protection week in Orange Farm, National Department of Social Development adopted a 365 days' program on child protection.
This program seeks to deal with issue pertaining to care and protection of children. This will also clarify roles as far as stakeholder and partners are concerned. Each role played from parents, various government departments, law enforcers, justice system, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), teachers, children and communities at large form part of a multi sectoral team with an aim to curb social issues such as children abuse.
After the launch all nine provinces were tasked to come up with activities and programs to address challenges faced by our children in our society.
Gauteng province has since convened various dialogues targeting children, parents and key stakeholders to converse on care and protection of children and ultimately come up with solutions.
On Saturday, the department hosted more than 300 children, who were part of the dialogue throughout the province. This was a platform for children to give feedback on their dialogues: 
• Substance abuse
• Learner/Teacher romantic relationships
• Initiation schools
• Gangs in Schools
• Hunger and poverty
• Lack of proper sanitation
• Peer pressure
• Child Abuse
The dialogues also encouraged that while children identify challenges they should also come up with possible solutions.
Amongst recommendation made by children these included that: 
- Government should integrate cyber bullying and bullying in school curriculum and conduct more school based campaigns in child safety
- Government should introduce parenting programs that teaches parent to disciple children without using violence
- Government should involve school management, teachers, parents, community and police to create a safe learning environment in schools
Government reaffirmed commitment to invest in multi-pronged campaign that will respond all challenges identified by children.