Page 126 - Department of Social Development Annual Report 2021

PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
12: CONDITIONAL GRANTS
The table below describes each of the conditional grants and earmarked funds paid by the Department.
1. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Eastern Cape DSD
Department/ Municipality to whom
the grant has been transferred
Purpose of the grant
Expected outputs of the grant
Actual outputs achieved
Amount per amended DORA (R’000)
Amount transferred (R’000)
Reasons if amount as per DORA not transferred N/A
Amount spent by the department/
municipality (R’000)
Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Social Development
Actual Outputs
• To increase the number of children from poor communities accessing subsidised ECD services through centre-based ECD services.
2020/2021
• 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 ECD programmes to meet the basic health and safety requirements for registration.
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.
Subsidy
• 27 571 poor children benefited from ECD services.
• 48 244 children benefitted from the top-up portion of the grant.
• ECD centres were subsidized for 264 days in the 2020/21 financial year.
• 2 899 staff benefitted from the unemployment risk support fund.
Maintenance
• 3 565 ECD centres conditionally registered as per registration framework.
• 32 ECD centres assessed for the maintenance component .
• 34 ECD centres upgraded from the maintenance component.
• 18430 Number of ECD centres that moved from conditional registration to full registration as a result of maintenance component.
• 150 children that ECD centres are registered to accommodate (capacity).
• PPE was procured for 197 non-funded ECD facilities.
R193 934
R193 934
R133 014
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