Residents of Keetmanshoop from all walks of life are attending a Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) workshop on the new children's law. Legal officials, health workers, clergymen, teachers and learners are attending the two-day workshop that ends at the town in the //Karas Region on Friday. LAC paralegal for gender research and advocacy project, Yolanda Engelbrecht, says the workshop aims to show the roles all stakeholders will play in the implementation of the new law. She says the Child Care Protection Act of 2015 replaces the Children's Act, Act 33 of 1960, which was repealed two years ago. The new law covers different topics relating to children, the age of majority when children can be considered adults capable of consenting to sex, among other rights. Former school counsellor, Maree Smit says the repealed apartheid Children's Act was outdated. Participant Lindi Hartung says making 18 the age of consent, when children can be considered adults, and their decision to engage in sex respected, remains a concern. She says that position does not reflect society's view. The European Union has funded the two-day training workshop that is being conducted by the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC).