Question NW3860 to the Minister of Basic Education to ask the Minister of Basic Education
07 November 2022 - NW3860
Yabo, Mr BS to ask the Minister of Basic Education to ask the Minister of Basic Education
What is the (a) progress of the Vangasali campaign to register early childhood development centres and (b) target number for her department for the current financial year?
Reply:
(a) The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has continued to train provincial officials on Vangasali, to particularly capacitate all officials post the ECD function shift. To date, seven (7) provinces have been trained on the programme. For the two (2) outstanding provinces, training in the North West is scheduled to take place on 26 and 27 October 2022; while for Western Cape, it will take place early November 2022. These capacity-building sessions are meant to support provinces which continue to register ECD programmes as part of the Vangasali drive.
(b) In total, provinces have targeted 6 361 ECD programmes to be registered for 2022/23 financial year.