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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION CONDITIONAL GRANTS

3. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Gauteng DSD

Department/ Municipality to Gauteng Provincial Department of Social Development
whom the grant has been trans-
ferred
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 • 31 236 beneficiaries were subsidised and benefitted from the ECD conditional grant.
• 12 ECD centres were maintained through the ECD conditional grant.
Amount per amended DORA R177,730
Amount transferred (R’000) R177,730
Reasons if amount as per DORA N/A
not transferred
Amount spent by the department/ R191,322 (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
• Additional allocation of R25,623 million for the Stimulus Relief Fund could not be spent due
to rejections of unverified bank accounts.
• Instead of registering as Non Profit Organisations, ECD centres were registered as companies,
partnerships or other forms of businesses.
Infrastructure

• Total maintenance allocation was not spent as a result of some ECD Facilities being closed
and no longer operational.
Monitoring mechanism by the The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year monitoring reports to monitor progress.
transferring Department

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