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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION CONDITIONAL GRANTS

7. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Northern Cape DSD

Department/ Municipality
to whom the grant has been Northern Cape Provincial Department of Social Development
transferred
• To increase the number of poor children accessing subsidised ECD services through centre and non-centre
based programmes.
Purpose of the grant • To support ECD providers delivering an ECD programme to meet basic health and safety requirements for
registration.
• To pilot the construction of new low cost ECD centres.
The grant has two components with detailed outputs, conditions and responsibilities for each component
specified in separate frameworks.
Outputs reflected in the respective frameworks for the following two grant components outline the number of:
Subsidy
• Eligible children subsidised, as agreed in the service level agreement (SLA).
• Children attending ECD services in fully registered centres.
• Attending ECD services in conditionally registered centres.
• Subsidised from the grant in fully registered centres.
Expected outputs of the • Subsidised from the grant in conditionally registered centres.
grant • Days subsidised for centre based programmes.
• Children subsidised through provincial own revenue including equitable share that are prof the top-up
grant.
• Equitable share children benefiting from the top-up grant.
• ECD Practitioners and other staff employed in registered ECD centres benefitting from the grant.
Infrastructure
• ECD centres assessed for infrastructure support and health and safety standards.
• ECD centres whose registrations status improved as a result of the infrastructure component.
• Low cost ECE centres constructed.
Subsidy
• 237 ECD Centres with 9 307 children benefitted from the ECD Conditional Grant in the 2021/20211 financial
year
• 3 565 children benefitted from the subsidy in non-centre based programmes during the 2021/2022 financial
year
• 245 ECD Centres received the Stimulus Relief Fund and 924 staff members benefitted.
Infrastructure
• At the time of assessment, the Department was able to assess 12 ECD Centres, and submitted to
• the Department.
Actual outputs achieved
• Maintenance to 4 ECD Centres could not proceed for the following reasons :
• 1 Centre did the improvements by themselves to the point where it could be registered.
• After severe storms, 1 Centre deteriorated to such an extent that the amount needed for the renovations
would exceed the allocated funding.
• 1 centre is located at a remoted site, and contractors were not interested to quote for work where the
roads are in a bad condition.
• 1 centre was not approved by the Municipality for renovations.
• Maintenance was completed at four (4) ECD Centres.
• 1 ECD Centre was erected in partnership with ACSA, Sol Plaatjie Municipality and CIPLA
Amount per amended DORA R29,564
Amount transferred (R’000) R29,564
Reasons if amount as per
DORA not transferred N/A
Amount spent by the
department/ municipality R27,210
(R’000)
The reasons for unspent funds per grant component are as follows:
Subsidy
• The transfer of subsidies started in August 2021. The delay was caused by the slow submission of
documents by the ECD Centres to account for funds received in 2020/2021 as required by the Department.
Payments could only proceed once the ECD Centres complied with the PFMA requirements.
Reasons for the funds
unspent by the entity Infrastructure
• Maintenance at 4 Centres could not be implemented.
• Maintenance at 8 centres were implemented and only 4 was completed during the financial year.
Maintenance at 4 Centres could not be completed, as the projects had to be stopped by the first week
in March 2022, as the function was moving to the Department of Education and no roll-overs could be
requested or accruals incurred on the account of the Department of Social Development.
Monitoring mechanism by
the transferring Department The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year monitoring reports to monitor progress.

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