DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

• INTERGOVERNMENTAL FISCAL REVIEW
• 17 OCTOBER 2007

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Introduction

• The primary focus of Social Development Sector in
  the Provincial sphere is now Social Welfare
  Services and Community Development.
• These include services aimed at supporting the
  aged, needy children, youth, people with
  disabilities and victims of crime, families and
  communities.
• While provinces have been performing these
  services in the past , their focus tended to be
  more on the rising demands of social security.
• The sharp focus on social welfare and community
  development services is evident on a number of
  fronts.
• There is increased attention given to formulating
  policies and writing up legislation that supports
  developmental welfare.
• Increased amounts of resources are being
  allocated to the sector in line with
  developmental welfare imperatives
• There is greater recognition of the role of
  non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as partners
  in meeting the challenge of delivering improved
  welfare services to those who need them.

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Sector Priorities

• Expansion and consolidation of services to
  children, youth, older persons, women, people
  with disabilities
• Capacity building for Civil Society Organisation
• Expanded Public Works Programme
• Human Capital Development.
• Social workers
• Auxiliary social workers
• Community development practitioners
• Child and youth workers
• Probation officers

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Social Development SectorPerformance
Review2006/07
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Services to Children

• New Child Care Legislation
• The Section 75 Childrens Bill was signed by the
  President in June 2006 and it is now referred to
  as the Childrens Act No.38 of 2005.
• The Childrens Amendment Bill previously known as
  the Section 76 part of the Childrens Bill was
  introduced to Parliament in July 2006 and passed
  by the NCOP. The Bill is currently being dealt
  with by the National Assembly.
• Early childhood development (ECD)
• Social development departments are responsible
  for
• children between 0 and 4 years.
• the registration of ECD sites, in accordance with
  the Child Care Act (1983).
• Subsidies to children from poor families
• The Sector registered approximately 1 500 sites
  in 2006/07 bringing the number of registered
  sites to over 11 000.
• There is on average an ECD site for every 455
  children in the country.
• Paid per diem subsidy for approximately 314 912
  children.
• The total amount paid towards these subsidised
  sites for 2006/07 is R350 million.

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Services to Children and Youth

• Alternative Care
• Developed a comprehensive residential care data
  base of registered child and youth care centers.
• Installed the Child Protection Register (CPR) in
  all provinces and the process of updating the
  database in all provinces is ongoing.
• Adoptions and International Social Services
• Registered 252 inter country adoptions and 2,166
  domestic adoptions.
• Services to children in conflict with law
• Approximately 1986 children benefited from the
  Home Based Supervision programme, and 12,770 were
  diverted from the criminal justice system.
• 3 Secure care facilities we completed, one in the
  Free State and two in the North West.
• Social Crime Prevention Training and Placement
  of Probation Officers
• 187 young people have completed block one of
  training on Volunteer Assistant Probation
  officers (VAPOs) programme
• 93 Probation Officers from all provinces were
  also trained as assessors / mentors of voluntary
  assistant probation officers.

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Services to Older Persons

• Legislation
• Older Persons Act (2006) passed, and regulations
  are currently being drafted.
• Developed model for community based care and
  support services for older persons.
• Old Age homes
• Distribution of homes for the elderly is still
  skewed.
• There are 456 old age homes throughout the
  country.
• About 49 are in Gauteng and Western Cape
• A large proportion of the elderly approximately
  (38 ) resides in Kwazulu-Natal
• However old age homes in this province account
  for only 19 of the total homes compared to
  Northern Cape, with 25 homes and an elderly
  population proportion of 2 per cent.
• Counseling services
• Kwazulu-Natal records the most counseling
  services for elderly people, recording 42,3
  (30 985) of the number of cases, followed by
  Eastern cape at 22,8 per cent (16 690).

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• Care and support programme for people with HIV
  and AIDS
• Funded 1 700 Home-community based Centres
  nation-wide providing a wide and varying number
  of services.
• Expanded Public Works Programme Sector
  Coordination
• Established institutional mechanism and
  structures for coordination and implementation of
  EPWP in the social sector.
• Developed strategy to facilitate expansion of ECD
  and HCBC services.
• Overall EPWP within the Social Sector created
  approximately 37106 job opportunities at a total
  cost of R402 million.

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Support to Civil Society Organisations Capacity
building for NGOs NPOs

• Registration of NPOs
• There are 44 062 registered organizations that
  operate in different fields.
• Funding of Civil Society organisations
• The National and Provincial departments provide
  funding to national organisations rendering
  services with the department in accordance with
  the provisions of the Policy on Financial Awards
  to Service Providers
• The National department awarded funds to eighteen
  (18).
• NDA approved
• Funding of R110.9 million to 95 projects in
  different provinces
• Disbursed R49.5 million to intermediary
  institutions involved in pro-poor projects
• Capacity Building of NGOs
• NDA launched a capacity building programme
• Committed 25.7 million to strengthen capacity of
  the CSOs

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• SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Provincial Expenditure Report
• 2006/07

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EXPENDITURE PATTERNS
Summary of the provincial departments of social development Summary of the provincial departments of social development Summary of the provincial departments of social development Summary of the provincial departments of social development Summary of the provincial departments of social development Summary of the provincial departments of social development Summary of the provincial departments of social development
2006/07 adjustment budget 2006/07 adjustment budget 2006/07 adjustment budget 2006/07 adjustment budget 2006/07 adjustment budget 2006/07 adjustment budget 2006/07 adjustment budget
             
Province Main appropriation Adjustment Adjusted Appropriation Preliminary outcome Deviation Spend
  R'000 R'000 R'000 R'000  R000  
Eastern Cape 762,772 -21,970 740,802 750,473 -9,671 101.31
Free State 417,850 27,884 445,734 442,985 2,749 99.38
Gauteng 981,782 23,861 1,005,643 1,011,634 -5,991 100.60
KwaZulu-Natal 894,810 105,675 1,000,485 941,578 58,907 94.11
Limpopo 431,750 -36,301 395,449 401,391 -5,942 101.50
Mpumalanga 430,279 -95,998 334,281 319,218 15,063 95.49
Northern Cape 215,025 7,696 222,721 217,643 5,078 97.72
North West 427,562 -7,969 419,593 368,436 51,157 87.81
Western Cape 727,143 828 727,971 719,516 8,455 98.8
TOTAL 5,288,973 3,706 5,292,679 5,172,874 119,805 97.74
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DSD Spending by Economic Classification

• Compensation of employees grew by 12,6 per cent
  annually over the three-year period to 2006/07
  and is budgeted to grow by 11,3 pert cent
  annually from R2,2billion in 2007/08 to R2,7
  billion by 2009/10.
• However, due to supply side constraints, social
  development departments under spent their
  personnel budgets in 2006/07.
• Transfers to non-profit organisations grew by
  20,7 per cent annually, from R1,2 billion in
  2003/04 to R2,2 billions in 2006/07.
• The growth in the budget is sustained in the
  years ahead with transfers to NGOs growing to
  R3,7 billion by 2009/10.
• Infrastructure for delivering effective social
  welfare services has been identified for the
  sector in 2003/04-2009/10 period.
• Although starting from a low base, capital
  spending doubled from R116 million in 2003/04 to
  R248 million in 2006/07 and is set to reach R457
  million by 2009/10.

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Provincial Expenditure Outcomes 2006/2007 FY

• Provinces collectively spent by R5.172 billion or
  97 of total budget, excluding social security
  expenditure.
• Most under-spending was in
• MP (6)
• Restructuring of delivery of social services to
  developmental services
• Challenges with regard to structural set-up and
  the shortage of professionals
• KZN (6)
• Non-filling of vacancies as a result of the
  scarcity of social workers
• Under-spending of integrated social development
  services grant resulted from the court case which
  was pending for the significant part of 2006/07
• NW (12)
• Delay in the completion of secure centre in
  Rustenburg
• Increase in the number of ECDs that could not be
  registered
• Delays in transfers to community based projects
  caused by departmental processes to strengthen
  internal controls

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• SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Provincial Expenditure Report 2007/08
• Up to 31 August 2007

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SUMMARY PROVINCES (2007/08)
  Allocated Actual  
Summary Budget Expenditure Variance Spent
Current payments 3,391,418 1,163,367 2,228,051 34
Compensation of employees 2,168,919 757,069 1,411,850 35
Goods and services 1,219,039 404,839 814,200 33
Interest and rent on land 3,460 1,000 2,460 29
Financial transactions in assets and liabilities - 459 (459)
Transfers and subsidies (Total) 2,731,779 959,203 1,772,576 35
Non-profit institutions (T) 2,401,184 920,524 1,480,660 38
Payments for capital assets 426,410 68,022 -  16
Buildings and other fixed structures 320,257 49,894 270,363 16
Machinery and equipment 103,153 17,824 85,329 17
Software and other intangible assets 3,000 304 2,696 10
Total 6,549,607 2,190,592 4,359,015 33
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SUMMARY PROVINCES 2007/08
Summary Allocated Actual  
  Budget Expenditure August 2007 Variance Spent
Eastern Cape 951,735 288,582 663,153 30
Free State 453,092 154,675 298,417 34
Gauteng 1,404,413 461,158 943,255 33
Kwazulu Natal 1,000,360 367,362 632,998 37
Limpopo 439,040 158,828 280,212 36
Mpumalanga 497,517 178,631 318,886 36
Northern Cape 304,319 108,536 195,783 36
North West 607,628 137,950 469,678 23
Western Cape 891,503 334,868 556,635 38
Total 6,549,607 2,190,590 4,359,017 33
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SUMMARY PROVINCES 2007/08

• Provinces collectively spent 33 of total budget
  instead of 42 (9 under expenditure) as at end
  of August 2007.
• Most under-spending is in NW (19), EC (12) GP
  (9) and FS (8)
• Under-spending largely due to delays in filling
  of vacant posts, delays in processing of
  transfers to NGOS as well as delays in capital
  projects

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• SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Challenges

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CHALLENGES

• Under-expenditure on compensation of employees
  and Goods Services largely due to
• Scarcity of Social Workers, Probation Officers
  and Assistant Probation Officers
• Long process of recruitment of staff (07/08 FY).
• Limited office accommodation for new staff.
• Delays in Transfers to NGOs/Municipalities due to
  compliance requirements in terms Section 38
  (1)(j) and TR 8.4 (committed).
• Delays in implementation of capital projects due
  to dependency on Third Parties acting as
  implementing agents

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Corrective measures

• Recruitment and retention strategy for Social
  Service Professions (including bursaries,
  scholarships, supportive infrastructure).
• Reduction in the turn-around time for the
  recruitment and employment.
• Appointment of contract workers to sustain
  service delivery.
• Development of a medium to long term
  infrastructure plan with supportive capacity at a
  national and provincial level.
• Prioritize the capacity building of NPOs.
• Intensify monitoring of transfers to NPOs.

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Measures to address shortage of Social Services
Professionals

• The Social Development Sector has undertaken a
  major recruitment drive to attract new entrants
  into the field of study.
• This has been supplemented by making available
  bursaries/scholarships every year, with the aim
  of increasing the number of Social Workers
  graduates over the medium term.
• The total number of bursaries/scholarships
  awarded in 2007/08 is at about 2000.
• Additional funding has been allocated to
  provinces for the immediate implementation of the
  social auxiliary worker strategy.

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FUTUREMTEF PRIORITIES
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KEY PRIORITIES 2008/09

• Integrated Services to Children
• Early Childhood Development (ECD)
• The focus will be on
• increasing of the current subsidy in order to
  improve the quality of ECD services
• Increasing access to ECD services and the number
  job opportunity as part of the EPWP social sector
  plan.
• Children In Conflict with the Law
• The focus will be on service delivery improvement
  with regard to children in conflict with law in
  the form of
• secure care facilities
• home based supervision
• diversion programmes and
• Increasing the number of assistant probation
  officers
• Tackling child poverty through appropriate
  household interventions.

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KEY PRIORITIES

• Service Delivery Improvement Equity
• Sustainability of the Home-Community Based Care
  Capacity Building Programme
• The focus will be on aligning training of
  community caregivers to the National
  Qualification Framework (NQF).
• Parity of Services (Children Homes and disability
  services)
• Objective is to achieve parity in the funding of
  NGO based childrens homes throughout the
  country and
• to ensure equitable access of services that
  promote the rights and protect people with
  disabilities.
• Occupation Specific Dispensation for Social
  Workers and Related Occupations
• Primarily to attract and retain social services
  professionals and specialists.
• It proposes a unique remuneration structure and
  allowances.
• Medium to long term Service delivery
  infrastructure requirements for social
  development (except for children in conflict with
  the law)
• Monitoring and Evaluation build ME capacity in
  the sector in order to improve accountability,
  sector planning and performance management
  including broader reporting.

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Conclusions

• The restructuring of the social development
  sector, which was partly triggered by the
  shifting the social functions to the national
  sphere, has resulted in some positive
  developments.
• Funding for the sector has grown and is set to
  continue to grow over the MTEF period.
• The sector has repositioned itself to deliver
  comprehensive package of social services.
• Measures to step up the recruitment and retention
  of social services professionals are also
  evident.
• Unanticipated impact of shifting of social
  security function to national government and the
  impact on human resource for other social
  development services.
• Agreed that HSD and MINMEC become accounting fora
  for service delivery, especially in relation to
  agreed sector priorities.

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