Development of offenders - DCS-Home
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PART 2. INFORMATION ON PREDETERMINED OBJECTIVES<br />
In the 2011/12 financial year the variance between spending plans and actual expenditure amounted to R410,124 million,<br />
resulting in 2.5% under spending. The Department had unauthorised expenditure amounting to R483,821 million<br />
incurred in the 2008/09 financial year. Parliament approved that the Unauthorised Expenditure be funded through<br />
savings from the Department’s budget and the Department has processed the R483,821 million against the 2011/12<br />
under expenditure.<br />
2.1.2 Aim <strong>of</strong> the vote<br />
The aim <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Correctional Services is to contribute to maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful<br />
and safe society, by enforcing court-imposed sentences, detaining inmates in safe custody whilst maintaining their<br />
human dignity, developing the sense <strong>of</strong> social responsibility <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders, and promoting the general development <strong>of</strong><br />
all <strong>of</strong>fenders and persons subject to community corrections.<br />
2.1.3 Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals<br />
The Department is committed to delivery on three core functions, which are directed towards delivery <strong>of</strong> the following<br />
strategic outcome oriented goals, and which are achieved <strong>of</strong> implementation through the relevant goal statement:<br />
Core Function To contribute to enhanced public safety through effective management <strong>of</strong> remand<br />
detention<br />
Strategic Outcome There is effective criminal justice through the effective management <strong>of</strong> remand processes<br />
Oriented Goal 1<br />
Goal Statement Establish effective management <strong>of</strong> remand processes by ensuring that remand<br />
detainees are held in secure, safe and humane conditions, have conditions conducive for<br />
participation in court processes, that their social and family needs are supported and that<br />
they are healthy<br />
Core Function To contribute to reduced re-<strong>of</strong>fending through <strong>of</strong>fender management and rehabilitation<br />
interventions<br />
Strategic Outcome Society is protected through incarcerated <strong>of</strong>fenders being secure and rehabilitated<br />
Oriented Goal 2<br />
Goal Statement To provide services and interventions that will contribute to the safety and rehabilitation<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders by ensuring that <strong>of</strong>fenders are held in secure, safe and humane conditions,<br />
correctional sentence plans are managed, <strong>of</strong>fending behavior is corrected, <strong>of</strong>fender<br />
literacy, education, skills competency is improved and that <strong>of</strong>fenders are healthy<br />
Core Function To contribute to social reintegration <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders through management <strong>of</strong> noncustodial<br />
sentences and parole<br />
Strategic Outcome<br />
Oriented Goal 3<br />
Society is protected by <strong>of</strong>fenders being reintegrated into the community as law abiding<br />
citizens<br />
Goal Statement To provide services and interventions that will contribute to the reintegration <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fenders<br />
as law-abiding citizens into communities by ensuring that probationers are rehabilitated,<br />
monitored and accepted by communities; <strong>of</strong>fenders under community correctional<br />
supervision are rehabilitated, monitored and accepted by communities; and parolees are<br />
rehabilitated, monitored and accepted back by communities<br />
Since 2006/7, the Department has been increasingly moving to results based management. In the 2011/12 financial<br />
year, the Department reviewed the Logic Model which had been developed in 2006/7 and approved the following refined<br />
logic model that maps the outcomes that the Department contributes towards achieving the impact that people<br />
in South Africa are and feel safe.<br />
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