(1) Considering that the social work profession plays a critical role in ensuring the wellbeing of all vulnerable sectors of society against escalating levels of abuse in the Republic, and given that there is a critical shortage of social workers (details furnished), (a) which government departments have written to the National Treasury since the 2018 Cabinet resolution on the recruitment of social work professionals, to request additional budgets to employ social workers, (b) what is the frequency of such requests since the 2018 Cabinet resolution and (c) what total amounts have been requested;
(2) whether the National Treasury will make additional funds available for this purpose; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? NW5756E