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The following table indicates the number of young offenders from 65 correctional centres, involved during the year
under review in the President’s Awards Youth Empowerment Programme.
64 DCS Annual Report 2007/08
Number of youth offenders involved in the President’s Awards Programme
2007/2008
CATEGORY MALE FEMALE TOTAL
Bronze 2 096 125 2 221
Silver 214 10 224
Gold 105 4 109
TOTAL 2 414 139 2 554
A total of 116 skills development practitioners were trained as Master Trainers for the new NC(V) curriculum in order
to subsequently roll out the training on the new curriculum to all other technical educationists in DCS.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the DCS and the Department of Education for the provision
of NC(V) at other correctional centres in the country namely Waterval Management Area (Ekuseni Youth Centre) in
KZN and at Rustenburg Management Area (Rustenburg Youth Centre) in the Limpopo / Mpumalanga / North West
Region.
Key outputs, indicators and targets for the programme: Development
Strategy Output
Strategy E.1.1:
Compliance with
Development
policies,
procedures
and applicable
legislation.
Provision of
needs based
development
services.
Output
Performance
Measure/
service Delivery
Indicators.
Implementation of
approved policies
and procedures
in all Centres of
Excellence.
Target
Approved policies
and procedures
implemented in
all Centres of
Excellence.
Actual Performance Against
Target
Procedures for Production Workshops
as well as Agriculture was
approved and disseminated to
operational level. All Section Heads
Production Workshops and Agriculture
were trained on this new Policy
Procedure Manuals. This training
was finalized by mid November
2007. All regions completed the training
of the relevant operational personnel
in all the management areas.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Tools
for both Production Workshops and
Agriculture were also aligned with
the Manuals, approved and availed
to operational level for implementation.
• Policy Procedure on SRAC
has been approved and
disseminated through regional
master trainers work sessions
to all regions.
• Training of skills development
practitioners on Skills
Development Policy Procedure
Manual was conducted in all
regions and implementation of
the procedures commenced.
• Community Participation
Procedures approved by
Commissioner.