Question NW487 to the Minister of Social Development

Reply:

(a)(i) The number of early childhood development centers (ECDs) are still awaiting verifications per province

Province	No. of ECD centres still awaiting site verifications	No. of ECD centres still awaiting CSD-Bank verifications
EC	287	21
FS	14	10
GP	2 102	1764
KZN	53	101
LP	18	82
MP	10	83
NC	0	73
NW	157	217
WC	The province is in the process of appointing a service provider to assist with site, bank , staff verification as well as duplications, i.e. the work that was previously performed by Data Innovators	The province is in the process of appointing a service provider to assist with site, bank , staff verification as well as duplications, i.e. the work that was previously performed by Data Innovators
TOTAL	2 641	2 351

(a)(ii) The number of early childhood development centers (ECDs) awaiting payments per provinces

Province	ECD Programmes	Staff
EC	580	1 338
FS	58	171
GP	613	3 267
KZN	390	2 757
LP	611	1 784
MP	85	333
NC	42	115
NW	105	398
WC	86	283
TOTAL	528	10 446

(b) ECDs already been paid

Province	ECD Pogrammes paid
EC	1 899
FS	1 266
GP	2 327
KZN	2 946
LP	2 648
MP	1 138
NC	375
NW	621
WC	1 327
TOTAL	14 547

(c) ECD employees are still awaiting payments and employees already paid.

There was total of 115 661 staff members associated with the initial 27 884 applications. This figure reduced to 114 446 staff members due to the following: cancellations, applications becoming incomplete and data cleaning whilst resolving duplications, individuals linked to persal and deceased staff members. The figures above show the payment status of the 114 446 staff members. Of the total applications that have been received, only 13 268 ECD programmes consisting of 61 798 staff members are still outstanding for payments

15 075 ECD programmes consisting of 63 094 staff members was send to province for payment processing. To date, 14 547 ECD programmes with 54 661 staff members have been paid.

It must be noted that out of the 61 798 staff outstanding for payments, there might be a drastic drop as provinces continue with the verifications. Already there are challenges with staff, site and CSD-Bank verifications, untraceable programmes, deceased and the closed ECD centres.

Province	ECD employees still waiting payments	ECD employees paid
EC	1 338	5 307
FS	171	5 589
GP	3 267	8 900
KZN	2 757	10 816
LP	1 784	9 136
MP	333	5 046
NC	115	1 471
NW	398	2 594
WC	283	5802
TOTAL	10 446	54 661

(2) The department has received the total of R496 million of which 2% of the total allocation has been taken out for administration and R474 million for implementation of the stimulus package. R264.4 million has been disbursed to provinces. From the R264.4 million, provinces managed to pay R220 342 million. The below table provides a breakdown of the total allocations and the amounts paid.

Province	(a) Total amount allocated to each province	(b) Total amount reportedly spent by each province
EC	R54 370 000	R22 215 638
FS	R32 851 728	R23 395 584
GP	R115 081 512	R37 255 000
KZN	R85 177 000	R36 805 625
LP	R73 732 204	R38 243 296
MP	R36 694 476	R21 122 556
NC	R12 306 840	R 6 157 606
NW	R29 101 072	R10 859 410
WC	R54 711 020	R24 329 123
TOTAL	R496 000 000	R220 342 978