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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

CONDITIONAL GRANTS

3. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Gauteng DSD

Department/ Municipality to whom Gauteng Provincial Department of Social Development
the grant has been transferred
Actual Outputs
2020/2021
Purpose of the grant • To increase the number of children from poor communities accessing subsidised ECD services through centre-based ECD services.
• To support ECD providers delivering an ECD programme to meet requirements for registration.
• To pilot the construction of new low cost ECD centres.
• To provide support to ECD services workforce as part of the Presidential Employment Initiative.
• To support ECD providers delivering an ECD programme to meet the basic health and safety requirements for registration.

Expected outputs of the grant Subsidy
• To increase the number of poor children benefitting from the ECD Subsidy for 264 days per annum.
• Increase in the number of ECD workforce benefitting from the Presidential employment stimulus package (unemployment risk support and
top-up payment to take on additional duties as compliance support officers).
Maintenance.
• To upgrade and increase the number of conditionally registered ECD centres to full registration.
• To increase the number of ECD facilities provided with standard hygiene and sanitation support package.

Actual outputs achieved Subsidy
• 17 546 children benefitted from the subsidy grant.
• 89 630 children benefitted from the top-up portion of the grant.
• There was no spending on the Presidential employment stimulus package.
Maintenance
• 753 ECD centres were provided with standard hygiene and sanitation support packages.

Amount per amended DORA 212 992

Amount transferred (R’000) 212 992

Reasons if amount as per DORA N/A
not transferred

Amount spent by the department/ R116 289
municipality (R’000)

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