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Social Development Sector Review 2003/04 – 2009/10: Challenges and Progress

This chapter provides insights on provincial budget allocations and spending trends in the social development sector between 2003 and 2010, focusing on welfare services, children, and older persons. It discusses key challenges, partnerships with NGOs, shortage of social workers, and legislative advancements. Despite funding growth, implementing improvements are crucial.

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Social Development Sector Review 2003/04 – 2009/10: Challenges and Progress

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  1. Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review: 2003/04 – 2009/10Chapter 4: Social Development 17 October 2007

  2. 2006/07 Outcome

  3. Programme Spending

  4. Programme Spending(cont.)

  5. Programme Spending (cont.)

  6. Real per capita expenditure on Welfare Services

  7. Services to Older Persons

  8. Services to Children

  9. 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 @ 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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.

  13. Developments within the sector (cont) • On the legislative front, • Regulations for the Older Persons Act (2006) • Children’s 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

  14. 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

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