Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review: 200304 200910 Chapter 4: Social Development

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Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review
2003/04 2009/10Chapter 4 Social Development

• 17 October 2007

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2006/07 Outcome
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Programme Spending
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Programme Spending(cont.)
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Programme Spending (cont.)
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Real per capita expenditure on Welfare Services
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Services to Older Persons
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Services to Children
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Services to children (cont)

• Child Care Act (1983)
• registration of ECD sites
• 6 508
• provision of subsidies to children from poor
  households.
• 314 912 children _at_ a cost of R350 million
• Expansion of ECD is planned over the medium term
  (however some key challenges remain)
• capacity and bureaucracy around registration
• aligning ECD provincial targets
• cooperation and coordination with other
  departments especially Education
• investing in infrastructure and equipment

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Developments within the sector

• With Social Assistance removed different
  approaches to developmental welfare services are
  evident
• Eg. Western Cape and Northern Cape continue to
  follow a predominantly welfare approach, whereas
  Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal tend to focus on
  community development
• Strong reliance on Non Governmental Organisations
  (NGOs) as partners to service delivery.
• Government and NGOs are the largest employers of
  social workers.
• competition for scarce resources causes
  significant challenges within the sector, of
  which Social Workers remains the biggest concern.

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Developments within the sector (cont)

• Shortage of Social Workers
• hampers service delivery
• Interim measure,
• Social Auxiliary workers
• increase Social Worker graduates with the
  awarding of about 1000 bursaries per year.
• conducting an audit of working conditions,
• Norms and Standards
• Monitoring and evaluation

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Developments within the sector (cont)

• Development of a national information management
  system
• New budget structure
• Other projects are also under way such as
• linking grants to sustainable livelihoods,
• the National Integrated Social Information System
  and
• the orphans register.

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Developments within the sector (cont)

• On the legislative front,
• Regulations for the Older Persons Act (2006)
• Childrens Act (2005)
• The Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
  Bill
• The Child Justice Bill is yet to be passed by
  Parliament.
• Social Services Professions Act (1978)
• Provincial departments are in the meantime
  reorienting their services

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Conclusion

• There are some positive development in provinces
• Funding for the sector has grown and is set to
  continue to grow over the MTEF period.
• Focus should now be on improving implementation