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givers at existing ECD centres.
(Source of information: The inputs
were drawn from the Cabinet/
Lekgotla report on the Expanded
Public Works Programme
(EPWP) submitted to the Social
Cluster in July 2008 by the National
Department of Education).
(i) Caregivers required training
The Department of Education
has projected to train 21 418
ECD practitioners in 2008-09.
Practitioners are being recruited
from registered ECD sites.
(Source of information: The inputs
were drawn from the Cabinet/Lekgotla
report on the
Expanded Public Works Programme
submitted to the Social
Cluster in July 2008 by the
National Department of Education).
(ii) Caregivers received training
The total number of practitioners
trained by the Department
of Education through the Expanded
Public Works Programme
to June 2008: 18 479
(Source of information: The inputs
were drawn from the Cabinet/Lekgotla
report on the
Expanded Public Works Programme
submitted to the Social
Cluster in July 2008 by the
National Department of Education).
It is to be noted that
within the EPWP an agreement
exists between the DOE and
DSD that practitioners/caregivers
will be recruited from the
registered ECD sites for training.
(b) Children benefited from the ECD
programme
By end of September 2008, provinces
reported that there are
622 932 children benefiting from
the ECD programme, of whom
400 522 are receiving subsidy.
Province
Number of children
subsidised ECD sites
KwaZulu-Natal 75 580
Eastern Cape 74 184
Free State 32 558
North West 20 100
Northern Cape 23 790
Limpopo 49 290
Mpumalanga 30 808
Western Cape 52 793
Gauteng 41 419
Total 400 522
Annual reports
1715. Ms H WEBER (DA) asked the Minister
of Social Development:
In respect of the 2006-07 and 2007-08
annual reports of his department and the
annual reports of each statutory and other
entity reporting to him, (a) what was the
(i) budgeted cost, (ii) actual cost and (iii)
unit cost of each annual report and (b)
how many copies of each were (i) produced
and (ii) distributed?
NW2495E
The MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOP-
MENT:
On behalf of the South African Social
Security Agency (SASSA)
(a) (i)
Financial year Budgeted cost
2006-07 457 000
2007-08 200 000
Total 657 000