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2. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Free State DSD

Department/ Municipality to whom Free State Provincial Department of Social Development
the grant has been transferred
Purpose of the grant • To increase the number of poor children accessing subsidised ECD services through centre
and non-centre based programmes.
• 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.
Expected outputs of the grant 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.
• Subsidised from the grant in conditionally registered centres.
• 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.
Actual outputs achieved • Maintenance for 27 ECD centres was completed.
• 10 438 Children benefitted from the Subsidy grant.
Amount per amended DORA R74,235
Amount transferred (R’000) R74,235
Reasons if amount as per DORA not N/A
transferred
Amount spent by the department/ R86,432 (Inclusive of expenditure against funds rolled over from the 2020/21 financial year)
municipality (R’000)
Reasons for the funds unspent by The reasons for unspent funds per grant component are as follows:
the entity
Subsidy
• 4 ECD centres could not be subsidised due to the challenges experienced with the Central
Suppliers Database.
• Due to challenges experienced with the Central Supplier Database and closed bank accounts,
all beneficiaries could not be compensated via the Employment Stimulus Relief Fund.
Infrastructure
• Not all approved payment batches were received from the service provider.
• The Supply Chain Management procurement processes took longer than expected.
• Due to non-responsive bidders, Supply Chain Management had to re-start most of the site
briefings.
• Delays in obtaining Permission to Occupy (PTO) from the Municipalities in order to construct
on the identified sites.
• Geotech report – Delays were caused as engineering drawings and Bill of Quantities (BOQ)
were reliant on this information to make further progress.
Monitoring mechanism by the The Department uses monthly, quarterly, and in-year monitoring reports to monitor progress.
transferring Department

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