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Estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) -2023/24 Financial Year
provided in 2023/24 and R487.878 million has been allocated over the 2023 MTEF for the training and
development of educators.

Progress on Early Childhood Development Function Shift

In 2021/22, the ECD function was officially shifted from the ECDSD and placed at the ECDOE. In the past

year, approved ECD centers have been successfully transferred from the ECDSD to the ECDOE. The
centers have been paid timeously as per allocation for all four quarters of the 2022/23 financial year.

The ECDOE has made available all of the necessary tools of trade such as laptops, printers and phones to
all of the officials who have transferred from the ECDSD. The ECDOE has partnered with Vhangasali

(Impande SA) and other companies are in the pipeline to strengthen the registration process whilst
supporting advocacy programmes in the Province.

Currently the ECDOE can be commended for its ability to ensure that the payment of centres has been
seamless and that centres are paid in time to benefit the 83 150 children of the Province. In the 2023/24

financial year, two national companies have collaborated with the ECDOE and will be signing
Memorandums of Understanding to support the growth and development of the ECD sector in the Province.

In the 2023 MTEF, the ECDOE intends to:
• Work towards establishing an ECD Institute in the Province;
• Implement institutional and policy framework;

• Audit the current existing community-based centres for compliance, full registration and educational
support;
• Audit assists in eliminating hazards, improve safety of learners and ensure adequate monitoring and

evaluation;
• Increase equal access for all 0 - 4 year olds through amplifying of registration of new centres;

• Provide high quality, developmentally appropriate programmes that are in line with National Curriculum
Framework (NCF);
• Strengthen public-private partnerships; and

• Ensure programming based on empirical evidence.

The provincial government has allocated ECDOE funding of R1.062 billion for ECD in 2023/24, and R3.4
billion over the 2023 MTEF period for transfers to qualifying Public Ordinary Schools to resource Grade R
teaching and learning, and Pre-Grade R training.

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