part a: strategic overview - Department of Education

SUB-PROGRAMME:
- Purpose
- Transformational Focus
POLICIES AND PRIORITIES
PROGRAMME 4
Public Special School Education � In school sport and culture for
special schools�
OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGES
AND CONSTRAINTS
� Mobilization of out-of-school
children presents a major
challenge�
Purpose: � Building and renovation of special � Insufficient resources to
To support compulsory public schools as well as building of a learners in rural areas�
education in special schools in
accordance with the South African
Schools Act, 1996 (Act No 84 of
1996) and White Paper 6 on
inclusive education
reform school to accommodated
sentenced learners�
� Identify all out-of-school children
and develop a database per
category per district�
� There is a long waiting list of
learners with special needs who do
not have access to schooling�
� Difficulty in securing and
retaining teaching and non-
� Place children (1377 out of teaching staff�
Transformational Focus:
The key concept that is operational
in a transformational focus for
education is that no one should be
excluded because of
circumstances over which they
have no control. All citizens have
the right to a high quality
school, 2488 sentenced, 1565
unsentenced and 2160 street
children) in institutions over the
next 5 years�
� Reduction of the number of outof-school
children with disabilities
on waiting lists at home�
� Insufficient advocacy on the
inclusive model of education�
� Need to capacitate educators in
general education with skills to
serve learners with special needs�
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education. Sub-programme 4 � Regulation of public special
highlights and celebrates the fact schools on private property�
that learners with disabilities –
whatever their status – shall not be
excluded. Inclusivity celebrates the
notion that infrastructure must be
put in place so that those who are
challenged (physically, mentally or
emotionally) must be educated
� Ensure that the Department
implements the plan submitted to
the court in respect of case
numbers�
� Provide infrastructure according
to needs as reflected on database�
alongside the rest unless their
circumstances are so severe that
they would be at a disadvantage.
Public Special School Education
reaches out to all marginalized
populations to give them an
opportunity. This includes, among
� Phase out schools that do not
qualify in terms of White Paper 6�
� Implement training and
development of educators and noneducators
to meet the needs of
learners�
others, learners with disabilities, � Implement targeted resourcing of
learners with learning difficulties, special schools in previously
young offenders, street children disadvantaged areas (rural
and out-of-school children and schools) in respect of transport and
youth, among others.
staffing and other areas�
The issue here is that the available
schools cannot accommodate all
who are in need. The
transformational vision is that no
one who needs a place in the
education system shall be
excluded, exposed to poor quality
services, or denied the opportunity
to learn, grow and be empowered
in the society.
� Rationalization of institutions to
serve the needs of the children as
reflected on database�
� Rationalization of institutions to
serve the needs of the children as
reflected on database�
� White paper 6 – Mobilization of
out of school children and youth
including children with disabilities,
street children, children in conflict
with the law (in prisons and
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