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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

Notices

Directions regarding the full time return of learners to schools and measures to address, prevent and combat the spread of COVID-19 in the National Department of Basic Education, and Provincial Departments of Education, and all schools in the Republic of South Africa

6. Learners with special educational needs

 

(1) Officials must be provided by the Provincial Department of Education with appropriate personal protective equipment, including protective clothing, where such provision is necessary.

 

(2) [Direction 6(2) deleted by section 4 of Notice No. 952, GG46172, dated 4 April 2022]

 

(3) Written communication for blind learners, as well as those who are Deaf-blind, must be through Braille.

 

(4) The Provincial Department of Education must, at a minimum, provide the following personal protective equipment to learners with visual and hearing impairments:
(a) Face shields, in the case of blind learners;
(b) cloth face masks, in the case of low vision learners, teachers and support staff; and
(c) face shields, in the case of teachers, support staff and learners in schools for the deaf.