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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

             CONDITIONAL GRANTS


            5. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Limpopo DSD

            Department/ Municipality to whom              Limpopo Provincial Department of Social Development
            the grant has been transferred


             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
                                                            •   Subsidy tranches were transferred quarterly during the 2020/21 financial year.
                                                            •   359 ECD centres received the R17 subsidy per child per day benefiting 12 333 children for 264 days.
                                                            •   10 840 children benefitted from the to-up portion of the grant for 204 days.
                                                            •   3 125 ECD staff benefitted from the top-up grant for ECD compliance support officers.

                                                         Maintenance
                                                            •   2 559 ECD centres received PPE and of this number, 293 received water tanks.


             Amount per amended DORA (R’000)                R185 965

             Amount transferred   (R’000)                   R185 965


             Reasons if amount as per DORA not transferred  N/A

             Amount spent by the department/ municipality (R’000)  R133 678


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