Question NW787 to the Minister of Basic Education
09 April 2024 - NW787
Abrahams, Ms ALA to ask the Minister of Basic Education
. Whether, with reference to her reply to question 3452 on 8 November 2023, she will furnish Ms A L A Abrahams with an updated report on the child support grant received by learners who are 18 years old, thus aged out of the grant, but were still in Grades (a) 9, (b) 10, (c) 11 and (d) 12 for the year 2023; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
The Department collects child support grants information as part of the biographical data of learners. However, it is self-reported and dependent on learners (or parents) providing the information. The data provided below are learners who are 18 year-old and indicated that they received social grants and still attending school for the period indicated. This includes ordinary and Special Education Needs (SEN) learners attending Public Ordinary, Special and Vocational Schools. Learners from Grade 9 are mainly attending Vocational and Special schools.
Table 1: Number of 18 year-old learners that received child support grant in 2023
