With regard to remedial steps, the Province of North West reported that schools were advised to use funds allocated to comply with Section 21 of Act No. 1 of 2010 to ensure that learners are not adversely affected and, personnel were deployed to support schools in the implementation of this intervention. The Province of North West further reported the following: that, with effect from July/August 2010, schools shall receive their NSNP funds as scheduled following the resolution of BAS related problems; delivery of cooking utensils for quintile 3 secondary schools is scheduled for third/fourth quarter; and secondary schools in quintile 3 shall receive their transfers in March 2011.